I am sure anyone reading this is aware of the 'Mandela effect'.
I think it is real.
But i do not think it is real in the way people say that it is.
This is what I think it is, when you distill down all of the explanations:
The effect of a perception of history that is at odds with the persons present.
No one can deny that this is experienced by many people in differing degrees.
The recent up-spike in this effect, IMO, is down to one thing.
Information saturation.
We have the same capacity minds as our ancestors.
But the information we take in in our lifetimes or per year has been rising exponentially since around victorian times.
As with all exponential things, we are now processing more information (via media and internet etc) than the last generation by magnitudes.
We are each now processing more information this year than last year. And so it continues.
I think we are approaching a breaking point. The Mandela Effects people report are the first glimpse of this.
Our minds are beginning to take in more information than they can cope with and something has to give
Our minds, being unable to cope, are shelving a lot of information about the past, or saving it 'compressed', and instead relying on re-creating many details and memories of history on the fly, and occasionally getting these details wrong.
This is the real Mandela Effect IMO, and if I am right, as information consumption only grows, instances of it will increase in the population.
And the severity of these instances will increase until it potentially becomes a real problem for society.
I think it is real.
But i do not think it is real in the way people say that it is.
This is what I think it is, when you distill down all of the explanations:
The effect of a perception of history that is at odds with the persons present.
No one can deny that this is experienced by many people in differing degrees.
The recent up-spike in this effect, IMO, is down to one thing.
Information saturation.
We have the same capacity minds as our ancestors.
But the information we take in in our lifetimes or per year has been rising exponentially since around victorian times.
As with all exponential things, we are now processing more information (via media and internet etc) than the last generation by magnitudes.
We are each now processing more information this year than last year. And so it continues.
I think we are approaching a breaking point. The Mandela Effects people report are the first glimpse of this.
Our minds are beginning to take in more information than they can cope with and something has to give
Our minds, being unable to cope, are shelving a lot of information about the past, or saving it 'compressed', and instead relying on re-creating many details and memories of history on the fly, and occasionally getting these details wrong.
This is the real Mandela Effect IMO, and if I am right, as information consumption only grows, instances of it will increase in the population.
And the severity of these instances will increase until it potentially becomes a real problem for society.
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