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Comment author: DaFranker 12 February 2013 08:02:01PM *  0 points [-]

There's surprisingly little difference between real memories and imagined ones - namely the belief that it's not just imagined. Apply confirmation bias to that and you have a way of planting false memories.

Corollary:

There's surprisingly little difference between real sensory input and imagined ones - namely the belief that it's not just imagined. Apply confirmation bias to that and you have a way of sending false sensory input.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 February 2013 07:23:59AM 2 points [-]

I don't think so. I suspect real sensory input are very different from imagined ones, it's just that most of these differences aren't preserved by the process that turns sensory inputs into memories.

Comment author: DaFranker 13 February 2013 03:07:10PM *  -1 points [-]

Meh. To a conscious mind this makes no difference internally.

I sometimes have to experimentally verify whether a stimuli is real or imagined. Like moving closer to the perceived source of a sound/noise to see if it gets louder or not. If it does, it's real, if it doesn't, then it isn't. As far as I know, this isn't a particularly unique thing that happens only to me.

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