Forgotten memories Did they ever even happen in the first place?

Did anything ever really happen?
Yes, obviously.

File: 3e18a3ae430b71b35a237638cdda0d04.gif (2MB, 847x860px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 847x860px

yes

File: wind.gif (6KB, 148x175px) Image search: [Google]

6KB, 148x175px

>>5115376
Of course not. They are only the fabricated ramblings of your mind. You simply imagined them in your head.

The researchers created “fake fake” news. That is, they invented some headlines that were the type of thing fake sites produce, but had never actually been published during the campaign. One of these placebo headlines was that “leaked documents reveal that the Clinton campaign planned a scheme to offer to drive Republican voters to the polls but then take them to the wrong place,” and its inverse in which it was the Trump campaign scheming to take Democrats to the wrong polling place.

There is some good news in that more people reported having heard, and believed, the true statements than the false statements. Only 15.3 percent of the population recalled seeing the fake news stories, and 7.9 percent recalled seeing them and believing them.

The more interesting result: Those numbers are nearly identical to the proportion who reported seeing (14.1 percent) and believing (8.3 percent) the placebos, the “fake fake” news stories. In other words, as many people recalled seeing and believing fake news that had been published and distributed through social media as recalled seeing fake news that had never existed and was purely an invention of researchers.

That’s a strong indication about what is going on with consumers of fake news. It may be less that false information from dubious news sources is shaping their view of the world. Rather, some people (about 8 percent of the adult population, if we take the survey data at face value) are willing to believe anything that sounds plausible and fits their preconceptions about the heroes and villains in politics.

“False remembering is incredibly correlated with people’s priors,” Mr. Gentzkow said. “One way to think about it is we know our memories are very imperfect. And if you ask me if I saw something, I’m partly asking myself how likely it is that I saw it. People are doing inference.”

>>5115424
whao... deep

>>5115431
mmmMmm namfog! i shall not respond to you シ

File: image.jpg (46KB, 728x546px) Image search: [Google]

46KB, 728x546px

does anyone else have memories which you're not sure whether they are real or just memories of dreams?

>>5115376
Reminder that the world didn't exist before you were born and was made entirely to facilitate your existence.

>>5116197
yes

If you forgot something then something must have happened to forget it.

I A M F A L L I N G
I A M F A D I N G

>>5116325
just me? or the other guy reading this?

>>5115376
you forgot to put Yuji Sakai in the namefield