“Memory isn't about playing back a perfect recording of the past. It's highly reconstructive, piecing together a higher-fidelity picture based on fragments and guesswork. And this is done subconsciously. It's not surprising that multiple people perform similar faulty reconstructions. After all, they have access to similar fragments and may share psychological tendencies.”

okay to make? Vanessa and I actually twins. I'm in the documentary, so judge for yourself. You'll also hear from actual experts from around the world. Last week, we talked about a wild idea by philosopher Nick Bostrom that we live in an ancestor simulation. You guys had a lot to say. A few people brought up the Mandela effect as evidence that we live in a simulation. For those who haven't encountered it, the Mandela effect is when many people share the same specific misremembering of something, like whether Nelson Mandela died during his 30 years in prison. He didn't. Or whether the Berenstein Bears were actually once the Berenstein Bears. My take on this is that brain psychology and memory are messy things. Memory isn't about playing back a perfect recording of the past. It's highly reconstructive, piecing together a higher fidelity picture based on fragments and guesswork. And this is done subconsciously. It's not surprising that multiple people perform similar faulty reconstructions. After all, they have access to similar fragments and may share psychological tendencies. Some of you pointed out that Neil deGrasse Tyson has actually argued against the…