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>All other “evidence” is the works of creative writing students or utter cranks. When believers are positing that dates of videos, comments, and forum posts could be easily manipulated to suggest they’re much older, or that books in libraries are also part of some metaphysical past hijack, we can only assume they’re: 1) in on the joke; 2) mentally ill.
>“People may forget things that have happened or ‘remember’ things that have never happened,” says Qi Wang, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Cornell University, when asked about the Roy Jay conspiracy. “Memories are constructed in line with our self-goals and motive; so errors are commonplace. In this example, I think it’s more about beliefs about memory (or metamemory, I’d say) instead of memory. Those people did not claim that they ‘remembered’ the nonexistence of Roy Jay; they just disbelieved the memories concerning his existence.”
>All other “evidence” is the works of creative writing students or utter cranks. When believers are positing that dates of videos, comments, and forum posts could be easily manipulated to suggest they’re much older, or that books in libraries are also part of some metaphysical past hijack, we can only assume they’re: 1) in on the joke; 2) mentally ill.
>“People may forget things that have happened or ‘remember’ things that have never happened,” says Qi Wang, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Cornell University, when asked about the Roy Jay conspiracy. “Memories are constructed in line with our self-goals and motive; so errors are commonplace. In this example, I think it’s more about beliefs about memory (or metamemory, I’d say) instead of memory. Those people did not claim that they ‘remembered’ the nonexistence of Roy Jay; they just disbelieved the memories concerning his existence.”
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