Re: You have a dream...
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Assuming that the soccer team looks an sounds exactly like you remember it in your dream
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That's one of the major problems in situations like this. We reverse construct our memory. We actually do it quite commonly and it's not even hard to test. ( never mind deja vu related issues).
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Yep, this is one of the most fascinating, horribly counterintuitive areas of study right now, IMO.
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Does "reverse construct our memory" mean that once we get to the gate and see the soccer team, no matter what they look/sound like, we will remember the team in our dream as looking exactly like it?
If that is the case then I would disregard the soccer team, because a soccer team in itself is not nearly enough of a coincidence for me to become skeptical that it is anything but that.
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Yep. Its more complicated than that, but the things we remember need not have happened that way, and our memory is not a static thing, even in the immediate past. Dennett proposes a 'multiple drafts' model where we continually revise and edit current perceptions and recollections and eventually settle on a few drafts (often 1) that happen to fit best with all the info. However, included in that info is both our actual perceptions and our own biases and desires that color those perceptions. Its not confirmation bias, but confirmation bias plays a role.
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