In reply to: "How do we come to trust our memories?"

By:

Dillon Wheeler

Very interesting concept, sounds like the plot of a movie I once watched. I think it could be the truth. Implanting memories and destroying real ones could be a real business. But as you said, that is the only way we measure the past, that is true, but what about things we have done to the world that are still the way they are. See, doesn’t work, but I just walked myself into a trap, as those things we thought we did, could have been done by the person who’s memories we captured and think of as our own. In fact, it would not be possible to measure the past if not for memories. Our trust in memory does have some weight though, for example, you could remember being injured by something, and could have the scars to show it. It would have to be in the past by the presence of the scar. Although the memory may or may not be true as to how you were injured, the injury would be true, and as for being written out, that seems very possible. Written in, - fake memories. Written out, in that sense would be artificially losing all of your memories - thereby reducing you to nothing. Just a shell. You - being your consciousness, or, “spirit”. thats a real mind twister, perhaps you had someone close to you, who was “written out” and your memories of him have been changed to memories of someone else, a sleeper agent of sorts. Think about it.

Over and out,

Dillon