satt comments on Amanda Knox: post mortem - Less Wrong

23 Post author: gwern 20 October 2011 04:10PM

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Comment author: satt 20 October 2011 11:16:36PM 0 points [-]

I thought the same thing.

It also occurred to me that (although it's unlikely) we might discover a neural signature distinguishing spurious memories from accurate ones. Or some less powerful but still useful signature, such as one that distinguishes memories that have been accessed after creation (and so potentially overwritten) from memories that have never been accessed (which are presumably more reliable).

Comment author: falenas108 21 October 2011 01:52:57AM 0 points [-]

There is weak evidence that the memories you make during the day are reviewed during REM sleep, which would mean every memory is gone over at least once.