“There is overwhelming scientific evidence on memory that shows memories are constructed by all of us and that the construction is a mixture of fact and fiction. Something similar is true for perception. Our perceptions are constructions that are a mixture of sense data processed by the brain and other data that the brain supplies to fill in the blanks.”
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The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them
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