We live in the past. Everything we consciously perceive is at least one-third of a second old. Memory is our most important sensory organ.
According to my professor, the naive realist is unaware that he has no criterion of the reality or unreality of objects experienced. He has faith in the reality of movie action while it lasts, otherwise he could not really enjoy it. He has faith in his own action, otherwise how could he really enjoy life. But how reliable is such faith? Comparison of present paradoxes with past experiences simply involves greater possibilities of error and greater paradoxes. For past experiences, to be compared, must be remembered. But memory often fails us. What assurance do we have that it is not failing us again? Yet, past experiences may have been erroneous consistently. The realist thinks he sees directly back into an existing past which in reality has ceased to exist! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From the article: False memories don't happen quite like Inception — they're more like a Wikipedia page that can be edited by you and others, says Elizabeth Loftus, a cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Irvine. Once people believe something to be true, their imagination kicks in, and they begin to visualize the situation using past experiences from themselves, others, even movies, she says; when the patchwork of memory gets stitched together and internalized, truth and fiction become indistinguishable. You Can Be Persuaded To Confess To An Invented Crime, Study Finds http://www.npr.org/2015/01/29/382483367/you-can-be-convinced-to-confess-to-an-invented-crime-study-finds?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social http://www.npr.org/2015/01/29/382483367/you-can-be-convinced-to-confess-to-an-invented-crime-study-finds?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social You Can Be Persuaded To Confess To An Invented Crime, ... http://www.npr.org/2015/01/29/382483367/you-can-be-convinced-to-confess-to-an-invented-crime-study-finds?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social With a little misinformation, encouragement and three hours, researchers convinced 70 percent of the study's participants that they'd committed a crime. Some even r... View on www.npr.org http://www.npr.org/2015/01/29/382483367/you-can-be-convinced-to-confess-to-an-invented-crime-study-finds?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social Preview by Yahoo
