One event. Multiple Stories. Why? pt2

Because of the tint applied to our vision there are things that happened that I will not have seen but you will and vice versa. And there are things that happened that neither of us will have seen.

 

Finally and probably the biggest one of them all is generalization. Life is complex and intricate. We would run out of time and get nothing done if every time we spoke about an event we started from the beginning and filled in every single detail of what happened.

 

For example, I can tell you I made a sandwich. Or I can tell you each step involved in making my lunch, every ingredient that went into it, where I found each one, how I decided what went into it and what did not, and how it compared with other sandwiches, that I have eaten. All of that data is relevant and I might share it once, but not every time I make or eat a sandwich, because I know you don’t care about most of those things and through your own process of deleting, distorting and generalizing, most of what you are going to remember is that I told you a story about a sandwich.

 

That’s all well and good you say. Great. We generalize.But what does that have to do with anything? Click here to read on and see.

One event. Multiple Stories. Why? pt1

Whenever there is some dramatic event, a fire or let’s say a robbery, after the fact the authorities get statements from as many witnesses as possible. They are trying to piece together exactly what happened. But, have you ever noticed that if ten different people are all separately asked to tell exactly what they remember, you end up with ten different stories? And sometimes some of them are wildly different from each other.

 

Is it because people are trying to cover up what happened, out of guilt or fear that they may somehow unknowingly be involved in what’s going on? Maybe some of the witnesses are pathological liars that couldn’t tell the truth if their lives depended on it. Or maybe one of the witnesses is the actual culprit responsible for the crime. Are powerful aliens bending the space time continuum and causing all those different people to experience the same event in different ways?

 

While one of those things may occasionally be true, its not the most common reason that ten different people who witnessed what happened will have ten different stories. And actually the alien theory is closest to what normally happens, except we as individuals are the aliens.

Yes, I am in fact crazy. But that has nothing to do with what I am talking about here. Click here to read on and see.