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.
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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.
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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.