Why
does the human brain create false memories?
Human memory constantly adapts and moulds itself to fit
the world. Now an art project hopes to highlight just how fallible our
recollections are.All of us generate false memories and artist AR Hopwood has
been "collecting" them. For the past year he has asked the public to
submit anecdotes of fake recollections which he turns into artistic representations.
They have ranged from the belief of eating a live mouse to a memory of being
able to fly as a child.
Read rest here :http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24286258
Most people are
aware of how faulty eye witness accounts can be. We fill in the gaps and will
pass a lie detector test if questioned about what we think we saw. Over time
that retelling of the event can also change and we will still think it is true.
This is why science doesn’t accept eye witness accounts of sightings of
cryptids. Which is understandable
....but ..one of the scientific methods in experimentation is
observation. So why is observing a cryptid any less credible than watching an
experiment? Because a scientist says so. If we believe what the article says
then all that scientific observation could be wrong and leaves it just as
likely to be believed as seeing Nessie or bigfoot. Yet people do believe it because
it is science but don’t believe in sightings of Bigfoot etc. Maybe if
cryptozoology was accepted as a science that might change.
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