User talk:Metaphorman

Hello, I'm the Metaphorman. At least that's the name wiki let me pick. I'm a professional author, and wanna be screenwriter for Hollywood. In another life (before the crash of 2001) I was one of those software developers with million dollar stock options in a dot-com that never panned out.

My biases.... democrat, agnostic, book collector, computer addict, male, late-thirties.


 * Hello Methaphorman. I have read in detail the edit war that has ocurred in the Speed Reading article, and I personally think that you should point out you have a bias in that topic. Thanks for reading. Pentalis 05:16, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Synthetic memory
At its current state, this page just seems to be a less-detailed duplicate of false memory. I'm not sure what term you were looking for, but it doesn't seem to be found yet. Perhaps we could merge this article into false memory anyway, to avoid reader confusion? GinaDana 04:43, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, I thought of using the term "true memory" when I was writing another article... However "true memory" refers to memory of things long past that have been induced. If you look at the "true memory" article, the focus is in keeping with what is generally found in the literature that describes "false memory". This is quite different than the focus of the "synthetic memory" article. The idea behind the "false memory" term is for more recent memories, such as someone mis-remembering what they read in a book or trying to recall something for a police officer that reflects memory recall that is hopelessly distorted. I couldn't find the proper term anywhere in any of my textbooks - they simply describe the phenomenon without giving it a name. I had heard this name used once upon a time in far far away, so I used it. It might not be the most appropriate for an encyclopedia, but how else to introduce it or describe it? If you can merge it into the ture memory article without scrambling the generally accepted meaning of "true memory"