Myths of Memory.

On my TV screen, a psychic mutant covered with lassitude asks Arnold Schwarzenegger what he wants.

The same as you, Arnold says.

To remember.

But why?

To be myself again, Arnold responds.

The movie is Total Recall, an action/adventure flick ground on the Philip K. Dick story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. Arnold plays an habitual guy who is frustrated by dreams of Mars, where he has never been. So he goes to a memory shop to buy a false memory, the memory that he was a secret component on Mars. While Arnold is unconscious, the folks at the shop wear that they enkindlet implant the false memory because they find that Arnold really had been a secret agent on Mars! Then, of course, all booby hatch breaks loose and theres plenty of running and shooting and diving through and through windows and flames and explosions and all that other good stuff.

The interesting part (unless you really like explosions) is Arnolds continuing uncertainty: Was his ordinary life false, a dream imposed on him when he stopped cosmos a secret agent? Or is the current shoot-em-up home all a dream? He cant trust his memories--and so he cant tell what is real and what is false.

You, of course, dont have any such difficulties. Your brain hasnt been tinkered with by secret agents or memory technicians.



You can trust your memories--cant you?

Dont count on it. You are about to image a speech about memory and how it works. Some of the things Ive learned--and you will, too--are a little disturbing. So, in a spirit of generosity, I estimate Id share them with you.

The Devil in the Details

Jean Pia devil, a Swiss psychologist far-famed for his studies of childhood development, believed for many years that he remembered something that had...

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