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RE: Is Our Past Been Edited? - Explaining The Mandela Effect
Wow, awesome piece! Great food for thought. I think the effect could be real, but the simpler explanation for many of these might be the correct one. Our minds tend to generalize some memories, which would explain the Volvo logo and the C3PO leg, for example.
Exactly, and then things get repeated and repeated, until it is they that become truth. Rather like "Luke I am your father". He didn't say it, however, it has been paraphrased like that so often, that, that has become the real truth now.
Cg
There's also research about how people basically create memories from assumptions like that. For example, people who went to Disney parks at a young age were successfully provided with suggestions later (which became memories) that they had seen cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny, even though Bugs is not a Disney character. Our minds tend to put things like that into convenient places.
Yup, exactly why opposing lawyers and judges must be careful in court; as it is so easy to sway a witness with just the right words.
Cg
How do you account for massive numbers of people with the same exact memory fragments that are different/???
I'm not a scientist, but perhaps we expect the human brain to record perfectly, when in fact it is also ordering and trying to make sense of things...imperfectly.