Everybody will tell you that memory can’t be trusted. When they say that, of course, what they mean is other people’s memories can’t be trusted. We don’t like to think that everything we know about the world is based on a deeply flawed and illogical storage system.
We’re not talking about being bad at matching faces with names here. Science has found that your memory is basically a pathological liar, just making it up as it goes along. For instance …
Great article. It reminds me of that book I read last year, “A Mind Of Its Own“, which portrayed just how much our very own brain is more than able to fill in the role of the traitorous underling, ready to back-stab us at the first opportunity! Thinking that the one thing we take for granted, the thing on which we base our lives, decisions and theories about the world, our memory, is so flexible and untrustworthy, a weasel really, is shudder-worthy…