Much like creativity in art, memory itself is an act of selective re-creation. Rather than a recording of events, memory is the re-construction of those events, a re-construction that is based as much on our understanding of the world as it is on some sort of “objective” record.
This parallel between art and memory can be clearly seen in stories about the past. Even if the stories are based on true events, they are still an imagined past, dreamed into being thr…
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