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Interlude LV: Memory Is Not the Past - False Memory, Emotional Bias, and the Reconstruction of Identity
Do you actually remember your past, or are you rebuilding it?
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines one of the most unsettling findings in modern cognitive science: memory is not a fixed record of events, but an active process of reconstruction shaped by emotion, suggestion, and repetition.
Drawing on the groundbreaking research of Elizabeth Loftus, whose work on false memory and eyewitness testimony revealed how easily recollection can be altered, and Daniel Schacter, whose “Seven Sins of Memory” framework reframed forgetting and distortion as adaptive…
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