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I think it's more delicious when I sell it harder. Don't you think? No. All right.
Well, I've set up a little trap behind me for the cats who are wandering around. We're going to do a test to see if the cats like laying on the blankets or in the empty cardboard boxes between them. So you can keep an eye on that while I do the show. Okay. Watch for cats.
Gee, I wonder if there's any scientific stuff that they didn't need to do because they could have just asked me. Save a little time. Oh, here's one from Anglia Ruskin University. So I did some research to find out that you can unlock autobiographical memories about your own life, that would be the autobiographical part, by looking at an image of yourself that the computer makes younger. So they can take your current face and while you're looking at the computer screen, the AI will turn it into a young version of you. And then they claim that by looking at the young version of yourself, it triggers better, more extensive memories of your life at that time.
So did they need to do that research or could they just have asked me, Scott, do you think showing a picture of somebody looking youthful would increase their memories of those days? To which I would say maybe. But you know what? It would definitely increase false memories. Talk to any hypnotist. If you do this study a hundred times in a row, a hundred times in a row, it will creat
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e false memories every time. Will some of the memories also be true and richer or deeper than if you hadn't done this? Probably. Yeah, probably. So it's a combination of yeah, it probably works, but the part that works would be completely buried and obscured by the fact that you would make up all kinds of fake memories to satisfy the researchers. That's the if you don't believe that, look into the…
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