Russell Standish wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:10:52PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote:
>> What if my parents are named Riley and Mae and my birthdate is 1939, but I
>> remember being Jesus?
>>
>> Brent Meeker
>>
>
> Sounds to me like you would be suffering delusions then, but I'm no
> psychoanalyst.
>
So a memory doesn't pick out a particular branch of the universe in which
the memory is veridical; it just picks out a branch in which it occurred.
So your brain doesn't have to record more memories as you grow older,
because it doesn't maintain a veridical record.
Brent Meeker
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