Mandela effect is becoming more and more obvious, and collective memory is biased. What's going on here?

"Fifty-six constellations, fifty-six flowers, fifty-six brothers and sisters are a family" is the first sentence in Love China, but it is not the lyrics in our memory.

"Fifty-six nationalities, fifty-six flowers, fifty-six brothers and sisters are a family", this lyric is the memory of most people. The difference lies in whether the first sentence is "56 constellations" or "56 nationalities". In fact, the lyrics of this song have not changed since its publication, and the textbook has always been "56 constellations", so there is a memory bias, and it is a collective memory bias.

I think many friends must have written "56 constellations" as "56 nationalities". What happened? Why is there a collective memory bias?

This is a very typical "Mandela effect". Mandela was born in 19 18, and he struggled all his life to become the first black president of South Africa. He appeared in many biographies and film and television works, but Mandela gave us the impression that people lived in the middle of the last century, and many people remembered that Mandela had died in prison in the 1980s. But in fact, Mandela lived to 20 13, at the age of 95.

In interviews with many people, they recalled that they should have seen the reports of Mandela's funeral and his widow's speech, but in fact these things didn't happen, and our brains deceived us.

There is also a very famous case. Many people remember that the famous French statue "Thinker" held his fist on his forehead, but the real image of "Thinker" was holding his chin with his hand, not clenching his fist. In the past, many people imitated the photos taken by the "meditator", all of them clenched their fists at their foreheads, but this was a wrong posture, but it has been deeply engraved in our memory. So what's the problem?

The principle behind these strange cases of "collective" memory deviation is called "Mandela effect", which is a psychological fantasy effect.

When we think about the Mandela effect carefully, it is a very scary thing. Is there a loophole in our brain memory mechanism, which leads to memory deviation? There are still external forces involved, quietly controlling everything such as our vision, hearing and memory. Everything we see and perceive is what others want us to see.

Memory is the habitual repetitive behavior of synapses in the brain. The same signal is constantly transmitted through synapses. Not once, just twice. Twice. No, just three times. If it is too many times, it will be remembered by the brain. Then the memory bias of Mandela effect can't appear out of thin air, which means that the synapses of our brain have been receiving such signals at some time in the past. So the question is, who gave us these signals?

Let's discuss it from three angles:

1, parallel world and multiverse theory cause memory confusion.

The bridge that often appears in many sci-fi works is the parallel world theory or the multiverse theory. In fact, scientists have also discussed the possibility of parallel worlds, especially after the rise of quantum mechanics. The core theory in quantum mechanics is the "uncertainty principle" of quantum. Simply put, all the properties of microscopic quantum are uncertain or superimposed, so it will collapse into a certain state at the moment of observation.

Schrodinger once used the "Schrodinger's cat" thinking experiment to ridicule this principle put forward by Copenhagen school of quantum mechanics. There is a cat, a clever device and a bottle of poison in a closed box. Only by opening the box can we determine whether the cat is dead or alive. But if you don't open the box, you think that the cat is in a superposition of life and death, which is crazy.

The parallel universe theory derived from this holds that the death and birth of cats coexist at the moment when the box is opened, but they are in two universes, and a different universe will appear every time they choose. So do you have any connection in the parallel universe, which leads to memory deviation?

2. "The brain in the jar" awakens the real memory.

Everyone should have seen The Matrix. The film tells that human beings will be enslaved by artificial intelligence in the future. The world we see is false. The truth is that everyone is lying quietly in the room, all kinds of life-sustaining equipment are connected to their bodies, and their brains are controlled.

In 198 1, hilary putnam expounded a hypothetical fear of thinking. If you take a person's brain out of the body, put it in a jar filled with nutrient solution, and then connect it to the nerve endings of the brain through a computer, you can transmit the simulation information to the brain by controlling the computer, which can make us feel that we are under the blue sky and white clouds, and we can run quickly and feel very tired.

So how can we ensure that we don't live in such a world? This is the famous "brain in a vat" hypothesis. The universe is very large, with an observable diameter of 93 billion light years, and it is also very old, with a history of 65.438+038 billion years. If there is a highly developed biological civilization, can they reach this level? You can imagine freely.

3. Under some environmental mechanisms, simple memory disorder.

This third point should be the most acceptable to modern science. First, let's look at the lyrics of Love China in the first example. Many people remember that the lyrics "56 Constellations" are "56 Nationalities". In fact, there is a song called "Fifty-six Flowers of Fifty-six Nationalities", so many people's memories are biased, which has a lot to do with this song.

Some memories are not deliberately remembered by us, but are influenced by the surrounding environment, and problems will arise. Many cases are fragmented, but our brain mechanism wants to connect these fragments, and eventually there will be biased fuzzy memory.

The collective memory bias in the Mandela effect is quite scary when you think about it carefully. Maybe the world is not real?

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