Originally posted by Paprika
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Originally posted by Chrawnus
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Originally posted by Paprika
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Suppose you believed the first experience to be tea because someone told you the drink was called tea. Later, you could be presented with an identical impression with a different interpretation. This time, someone tells you the drink is called coffee. This time the flavor, though identical to the original impression, is now interpreted as 'coffee'. Your new experience now conflicts with the memory of a past experience. You could believe that both experiences are correct, but that there are extenuating circumstances (you're in a different country, so naming might be different).
Say you continue to have near identical experiences which all relate to coffee. In that case, you could come to re-evaluate the initial experience and decide it too was coffee. Now your memory of the initial experience is revised. The new memory includes the original memory but also includes a belief about the original memory's truth value. You could coherently say "I remember tasting coffee for the first time but thinking it was tea" and "The first time I knowingly tasted coffee was not until later". Another remembrance would even include the recognition of the original interpretation as incorrect: "I remember when I realized that what I had thought was tea was really coffee".
Memories and beliefs encompass each other. You can have beliefs about a memory, and you can have memory of beliefs.
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