#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

3989.526 - 4011.611 Charan Ranganath

And likewise, he wrote this beautiful paper on imagination saying when we imagine something and create something, we're creating it from these specific experiences that we've had and combining it with our general knowledge. But instead of trying to focus it on being accurate and getting at one thing, you're just ruthlessly recombining things without any necessary kind of goal in mind.