The Brain Blog

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Why Memories do not Deserve the credit we give them.

We tend to treat memory like a recording. A clean, factual replay of what happened. Something we can trust. But from a neuroscience perspective, that belief is not just outdated—it is misleading. Your brain is not wired to store truth. It is wired to store meaning. And that distinction changes everything. Memory Is Not a…