While those telling the tales aren’t 25,000 years old, give or take a few Octobers, those oral histories may very well be and somehow have remained consistent through the millennia, rather than devolving into a game of Telephone. Such yarns come from around the globe and Chris Baraniuk finds a lot more than he was expecting. Such a proposition is unsurprising given how Our Memory Records Very Little Of Our Lives, so how does the brain reconcile our sense of self? Mary Elizabeth Williams is floored by Gregory Berns’s assertation how the human brain is a fiction writer and contributes to our delusions. From there, things get really weird. (CS)
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