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My favorite one when they do experiments on this is they implant memories by just saying we're being over and over again people about the time that with Disneyland and met Bugs Bunny.

Take a picture with Bugs Bunny. Remember he was like put his arm around you?

And Bugs Bunny, how are those great? Is Mickey and Bugs and they all hang out and of course what's wrong with that?

He's Warner Brothers so it would be illegal for him to be a Disney World.

No, you can't uncover a memory of Bugs at Disney World. That didn't happen.

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Today it's some brain science. Animals create patterns out of nothing because it's helpful for survival.

We've talked about this on the show before that the caveman who heard a bush rustle and assumed it was a lion lived to reproduce and the person who said out it's nothing.

Never kind of made it out to evolve to humanity today.

We don't use memories or perfect recall. We use what's called paternicity. We create patterns sometimes out of nothing, which is why we believe some stupid things as well.

Our brains are actually so suggestible that we can inoculate ourselves against pain, hypnotize ourselves, even implant fake memories like being abducted by aliens and other craziness.

Now, there are some other areas where our brains are suggestible. For example, there are studies that show that athletes perform better when they drink gatorade even if it's just fake gatorade because they think it's going to help them.

We've done blind taste tests with Pepsi versus Coke and fine wine versus two buck chuck.

And we can convince ourselves that one thing tastes better because we are told that it does. There's also placebo effect that dulls pain.

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