How would you know if the memories are real or fake?
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I’m sure there are some serious philosophical responses to this, but I’m not a philosopher.
I am a movie buff.
The best example in how to consider this I can think of is Bladerunner. “Replicants” are given fake lives they can believe are real. There’s a scene late in the movie that essentially asks “If we gave you memories of an entire life up until this moment, how would you know the difference?”
The answer is, you wouldn’t. Not for sure, anyway.
Then you start reading about phenomena like the Mandela effect, in which a significant number of people remember a specific thing that never happened. In the named case, thar Nelson Mandela had died many years before he actually did die. How could SO MANY people remember something that didn’t happen?
Or that Stouffers never made Stove Top Stuffing (they are separate brands). Or think about the Friends theme song ( “I’ll be there for you” by the Rembrandts). “So no one told you life was gonna be this way….”
How many claps are there?
>!4, not 5!<
Memory is messy, and you can’t always believe it.
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