> > I might not have typed any of this message so far, but I remember typing it, so I assume I did.
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> That's a bit different (if you don't mind me taking your statement more earnestly than you intended :-) For example, it's interesting how you can remember having written a longish message or letter, but if you expend serious effort in trying to recall *exactly* what you wrote, it's extremely difficult -- even though it was YOU who just wrote it a few minutes ago. If we had the ability to recall everything we said or saw perfectly, with eidetic accuracy, then the question of whether "memory is true" would never come up.

There is a theory that the entire universe was created 5 minutes ago, and everything from dinosaur bones to the works of Shakespear, to your memory of reading the start of this post are just stitches in the Deity's great tapestry of false history. It does have the advantage that it can never be prooved or disprooved, and perhaps says something useful about this thread.

winter"has believed in this for at least 10 minutes"mute