"The Memory's a *funny* thing - isn't it?
An incredible feat of engineering, it sits in the medial temporal lobe,
and it's most impressive FUNCTION : Is It's FILING System.
It's better than ANYTHING a Supercomputer could do.
Another of My Favourite Facts - given that,
THAT'S What This Trial is All about :
Right Answers,
Wrong Answers,
Knowledge -- Truth
....is that, when we are remembering something,
we're not *actually* recalling The Original Event....
What we are *DOING* ,
is remembering the LAST time, we remembered it --
So we are CONSTANTLY wiping Our Pasts,
and editing together A NEW One -
One that makes SENSE to Us, NOW -- in The Present.
ALL Memories, therefore,
are by Definition :
A Lie.
They change.
WE change them.
Which isn't A Crime, A Conspiracy, just....
Human Nature.
We can project Guilt, say -
Back onto An Event
That was, in fact, *perfectly* innocent.
I'm asking you all
To Try and Resist
A More Entertaining Falsehood
in favour of less-extraordinary Truth :
That Major Ingram simply knew The Answers to those Questions --
And *THAT'S* Why He Got Them RIGHT.
An incredible feat of engineering, it sits in the medial temporal lobe,
and it's most impressive FUNCTION : Is It's FILING System.
It's better than ANYTHING a Supercomputer could do.
Another of My Favourite Facts - given that,
THAT'S What This Trial is All about :
Right Answers,
Wrong Answers,
Knowledge -- Truth
....is that, when we are remembering something,
we're not *actually* recalling The Original Event....
What we are *DOING* ,
is remembering the LAST time, we remembered it --
So we are CONSTANTLY wiping Our Pasts,
and editing together A NEW One -
One that makes SENSE to Us, NOW -- in The Present.
ALL Memories, therefore,
are by Definition :
A Lie.
They change.
WE change them.
Which isn't A Crime, A Conspiracy, just....
Human Nature.
We can project Guilt, say -
Back onto An Event
That was, in fact, *perfectly* innocent.
I'm asking you all
To Try and Resist
A More Entertaining Falsehood
in favour of less-extraordinary Truth :
That Major Ingram simply knew The Answers to those Questions --
And *THAT'S* Why He Got Them RIGHT.
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