On 10/26/2011 11:38 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:00:36 -0400, Warp wrote:
>
>>    The major problem with ufologists and new age hippies is that they
>>    *want*
>> to believe their superstitions and unjustified hypotheses even if that
>> means discarding completely plausible (and even fully demonstrable)
>> natural earthly explanations.
>
> It's even more involved than that - humans by their very nature are
> cognitively predisposed to accept as fact things that reinforce their
> beliefs, and to reject as being false things that challenge their beliefs.
>
Which is, of course, the problem with memory recall. Merely trying to 
recall a memory has the effect of amplifying connections and 
associations that reflect "prior" experience, and emotional attachments, 
while undermining connections that do not, even if those less desirable 
connections are the "correct" ones.

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