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dtmc t1_irrfcyu wrote

Reply to comment by PrestigiousClient655 in Are there any ways to differentiate between true and false memories? by PrestigiousClient655

  1. Theoretically possible? Sure. Practical, in any sense? No. We perceive reality in a biased way, so, from inception, all memories are faulty.

  2. Impossible to know. Generally, again, our memories are not 100% accurate after they leave our short-term memory -- if not before that when sensory memory (which is pretty accurate and vast, but fleeting) is encoded into short-term memory. They're good enough to serve our personal agendas (not being pejorative, just recognizing the inherent self-focused bias of memory formation), whatever that may be. I'd argue that we all have a good gist of what happened to us and when and a good deal of details, but there are lots of details that we have woven in to fit the naturally occurring gaps to make us seem more sure of a memory/detail than we actually are. It's all relative and probabilistic.

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PrestigiousClient655 OP t1_isdaxor wrote

Sorry for my late response. So do you trust your memories?

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dtmc t1_isfq61f wrote

As far as I can throw them =D

EDIT - less tongue in check of an answer: yes, but I recognize that what I remember might not be how it happened, but a lot of times, what matters is how I remember it, if that makes sense. Like a meal with a friend: I don't need to know the specifics, just need to know how it felt, etc., and even if it wasn't how I felt then, it's how I think I felt back then now, and that's cool with me.

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PrestigiousClient655 OP t1_isizeom wrote

Yes, I think trusting memory is less depressing. Few hours ago, I just read an article shows that participants tested memory of art gallery event after two years still 93-95% accurate ,The link:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337754644_The_truth_is_out_there_Accuracy_and_detail_in_recall_of_verifiable_real-world_events

But Elizabeth Loftus shows that it is easily to create false memories in participants

And I read article about HSAM people who can remember every day of life remember memory 97% accuracy

The link:https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1314373110

But evidence shows that sometimes eyewitness memory is not so reliable so actually this seems confuse

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