What is memory? Can you recall the past with any accuracy, or is it merely a vague recollection dredged up from the crumbling remnants of your clone’s fragmented mind? Find out on this week’s episode of Fact Hammer!

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Podcast Notes and Links

Chronicles of an Affair with his Secretary Found in an Abandoned Suitcase: http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/03/25/chronicles-of-an-affair-with-his-secretary-found-in-an-abandoned-suitcase/

Kat referred to a study explained in this article on false memory demonstrating what scientists call false experience effect. As the article explains, 100 undergrads were introduced to a made-up pop-corn brand range called “Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Fresh Microwave Popcorn”. A significant number of the the group were convinced by the experimenters that they both knew and enjoyed the taste of it after viewing only a few adverts. http://neurobonkers.com/2011/05/26/study-demonstrates-false-memories-implanted-via-advertising/ .

The paper entitled I Imagine, I Experience, I Like: The False Experience Effect is available for scrutiny: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/660165#full_text_tab_contents

Are you younger than you think? http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/science/your-body-is-younger-than-you-think.html?_r=0

Well, you can tell by the way I teleport, Im my own clone, no time to talk: Staying Alive. The Scenarios:
The aim of the game is to stay alive.There are three rounds. In each round, you will be presented with a scenario and then offered two choices. The decisions you make determine whether you stay alive or perish. http://www.philosophyexperiments.com/stayingalive/Default.aspx