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Why Does Your Brain Create False Memories? — Season 1: WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Episode 6

Why Does Your Brain Create False Memories? — Season 1: WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? — Episode 6

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Why Does Your Brain Create False Memories?

We trust our memories because they feel real.

A childhood room. A conversation. A face. A moment you can see so
clearly that you never think to question it.

But memory isn't a recording. Every time we remember something,
our brain reconstructs it. And sometimes, that reconstruction can
become something that feels like a memory of an event that never
happened.

So what happens when a memory is wrong?

Maybe the mistake doesn't matter.

But what if that memory changed the way you see yourself? What if
it changed who you trusted, what you feared, or what you believed
happened to you?

Because memories don't just tell us about the past. They help
create the story of who we are.

And if your brain can create a memory that never happened...

what else do you trust simply because it feels true?

WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? is a series of short psychological thought
experiments about memory, identity, consciousness, choice, and
trust.

By Jonah Whitmore.

Jonah Whitmore's fiction explores many of the same questions
about memory, identity, choice, and trust.

The Memory Editor

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHJ25SQ2

The First Archive

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHHHGBQ2

The Last Archive

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ24CPP1

The Unchosen

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJCYXRRY

The Memory That Remained

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJZH5RM7

Jonah Whitmore

https://jonahwhitmore.wordpress.com/