I've two valid explanations as to why Brian Williams kept revising an event in his memory. Pick your choice. The well proven explanation: The human brain is a terrible recorder of facts. If you want anything close to accurate detail, then take a widescreen unedited video of the event. Researchers have proven how easy it is to manipulate memories. (And Fox news continually proves how easy it is to manipulate video.) Every single time you recall a memory, you will change it. In Brian William's case the edited tape his videographer made for a newscast created confusions of details from the very first. Which helicopter received fire? How many helicopters were there? Brian probably reviewed that film so often that it became his initial memory. Every time anyone would ask about the event and Brian shared, the details would change. Not because Brian wanted to lie to people, but because his brain kept altering the memory. That's why his story changed over time. Because he's got a normal faulty human brain. For additional information about faulty memories: http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/05/opinion/vox-brian-williams/ http://petapixel.com/2013/07/28/manipulated-photographs-manipulated-memories/
Liza's Multiverse theory of why our brains are so faulty.
In the world of multiverses, not only can anything happen, but everything does happen in some universe. I don't believe in infinity, thus for every universe created, another two universes must collapse into one based on statistical irrelevance. (By statistical irrelevance, I mean the differences in the two universes are no longer matter. Over time the relevance changes. For example, what we believed happened or didn't happen is far more relevant than what actually happened in 1 AD). However, for two universes to be statistically "the same" doesn't mean there won't be significant differences in particulars.
We experience those differences as Deja Vue, Precognition, and possibly some cases of schizophrenia where the people a person remembers are actually remnants of a different universe that has collapsed into ours. If multiverses can cause us to relive a situation twice, or to see the future before it happens, imagine what it can do to the human brain when two slightly different situations are collapsed into one memory, which later will be collapsed into yet another slightly different memory. In this case it is not that we have faulty memories, but we have multiple memories of the same event and one of them must dominate and become our truth, even if in our current universe, the external facts support a different truth. This theory explains a great deal of oddities about our world, but it is a bit unnerving, so most of you will be more comfortable with the faulty memory theory. But in either case, Brian Williams did not just wake up one day and decide to lie to the American public and destroy his career so he'd be more interesting on a talk show. The 'truth' altered over time, either by faulty memories, which we all have, or by the collapse of multiverses, actually switching out the 'truth' with one similar but not the same. So give Brian Williams a break. He's just a normal human. All our memories are false. If you don't believe me, ask your sibling to recall an event and both of you write the specifics of the event down. Choose an event of importance to you, since it is likely you've visited and changed it often. Your memories of the event won't be the same. Does that mean I have to give all the anchors of Fox News a break for their continual lies and misinformation? No. But I hate to say it, Bill O'Reilly may have actually 're-remembered' his value in society to be greater than it truly was due to the memory problem. However, unlike Brian who admitted he was wrong when presented irrefutable proof, Bill goes berserk calling all the reporters & interviewers who nailed him liars. Their different reaction to the truth could come from their emotional differences.
So there it is: Either humans have horrible memories or the multiverses are changing reality all the time. Either way, you really can't believe anything anyone tells you. Fox News doubly so.
And just like that, the best blog hop ever is over. Oh the inhumanity of it all! It was fun, wasn't it? Now, I have 8 followers to talk to. I fear I'll have 0 again after this blog. I really don't want that, so let me throw up a warning right off:
Warning: Liza, unable to keep withing normal boundaries of appropriate topics, will discuss religion. Statistical analysis suggest 6 of you will find her comments disturbing enough to consider unfollowing. Please don't. Liza is only using the religious reference to explain how universes are constantly collapsing into one another
According to the Multiverse theory of Quantum Physics, universes are forming all the time to account for all the choices we make on a daily basis: When we do something, what we do, who does it with us....They all create new universes so that everything that can happen, does. Liza's Multiverse or Multi-Universes theory of Quantum Physics allows not only for the creation of universes, but the collapsing of statistically similar universes. Otherwise the number of Universes would explode to infinity in short order and it will turn into a big black hole of crushed universes. Practicality demands someway to remove small, unimportant differences which occur at each possible action point. If you whittle the universes down by collapsing any that are statistically the same, now it becomes a workable theory. And instead of time being your worst and most prolific nightmare, it becomes the most efficient manager ever.
Turns out, over time, most things becomes statistically irrelevant. In fact, whether things really happened or are just believed to have happened no longer matter.
Warning: this example may offend some readers. I once read a book that proved Jesus Christ never existed. In fact there is no mention of him at all until 40 years after his claimed death. Did the publication of this book have any statistical relevance to my universe? None whatsoever. Those who believed in Jesus Christ continued to believe and those who didn't pointed to the book as further proof. And those who didn't know, still don't know. In other words, over time, whether Christ lived or not has become statistically irrelevant. What is relevant now is that people believe he exists. This shows how even a major statistical differences between two universes can collapse into one, given enough time has passed to make historical reality irrelevant.
Let's say in our universe Christ was born in a manger and everything happened just as the bible says. In another universe, he lived, but half the stuff the bible said happened didn't happen. (His followers embellished a great deal to draw in new followers.) In a third universe, he's a purely fictitious character created by a group of men who really want to break away from the harsh Jewish laws and make a kinder, nicer religion. At first, these would have been statistically relevant differences creating 3 different universes. But let a small bit of time go by --say 2000 years-- and it doesn't matter which "truth" we initially had in this universe. The actual facts have become irrelevant. In each case 33% of Earth's population are Christians and facts discovered now (contributed by a different universe) will not change anyone's opinion. Because these type of inconsistencies occur all the time, we tend to ignore them and believe what we want.
Example 2: How many of you have experienced deja vu? Yes, The Matrix offered one possible explanation for it. But here's a multi-verse explanaation. Two universes with statistically irrelevant differences, collapse into one another and you end up reliving the same moment twice because they are a day off from one another. I distinctly remember the day being 9/12 when the Twin Towers fell. But a day later, everyone thinks it happened on 9/11, which let's face it, is a far more marketable date. So I switched over to 9/11. Most people would just think they got the date wrong and forget the whole thing, but I constantly look for signs of universes collapsing, so I held on to it. I know what you're thinking. If only Liza had held on to her sanity... To that point, consider the possibility that when people have illusions and see people who don't exist and remember things that never happened, perhaps they aren't crazy, but the victims of a bad collapse of universes where both lifes try to exist simultaneously. This possibility occurred to me when I watched A Beautiful Mind, which was loosely biographical.
The brilliant scientist John Nash (played by Russell Crow) sees and talks to people no one else can see. He's diagnosed as a schizophrenic and lives two different lives, both real to him. His wife pulls him towards his 'real' life and more meaningful work pulls him to his 'delusional' life. The world where he's a professor is the dominant universe after the collapse, so his codebreaker people (from the other universe) should have ceased to exist, would have, if the professor had not been so strong-willed and insistent they still existed. (It would be like me stubbornly insisting we've had our dates wrong since the towers fell on 9/12) Fortunately, I know this sort of stuff goes on all the time, so tomorrow when I wake up with a cat instead of a dog for my pet, I'll just chalk it up to another universe collapse and go with the flow.
Want to know how you can arrive somewhere and not remember the actual drive? Universe collapse. Have you ever remembered doing something (or not doing something) then you get proved wrong with incontrovertible evidence? Universe collapse. A great deal of the strange stuff that goes on in our lives can easily be explained by universe collapse. They happen constantly.
So the next time you're late to work because you couldn't find the car keys that you always put in the very same place, blame Universal Collapses.
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