Today’s title riffs on the seventh installment of William Saletan’s Slate series on the memory researcher, Dr. Elizabeth Loftus. In several places in the article, one could simply replace words or phrases and the result would be an accurate description of the ways in which religious cultural inputs create imaginary worlds for believers of most [...]
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In yesterday’s post regarding William Saletan’s excellent (and continuing) series on memory over at Slate, I quoted this excerpt: “The scary part is that your memories have already been altered. Much of what you recall about your life never happened, or it happened in a very different way.” Elaborating on this idea, Saletan recounts another [...]
Tags:brainwashing·confabulation·cultural inputs·Elizabeth Loftus·memory implants·spiritual experiences·William Saletan
