Human behavior as automatons memory
This is (mostly) a stub
Eye witness testimonies are very unreliable. The witness is often sure they saw something, but over time that memory might deteriorate, or even be altered.
Literature notes
Many people believe that human memory works like a video recorder: the mind records events and then, on cue, plays back an exact replica of them. On the contrary, psychologists have found that memories are reconstructed rather than played back each time we recall them. The act of remembering, says eminent memory researcher and psychologist Elizabeth F. Loftus of the University of California, Irvine, is “more akin to putting puzzle pieces together than retrieving a video recording.” Even questioning by a lawyer can alter the witness’s testimony because fragments of the memory may unknowingly be combined with information provided by the questioner, leading to inaccurate recall. – Why Science Tells Us Not to Rely on Eyewitness Accounts - Scientific American
Fleeting notes
How much do we actually remember, how does that work? How does this work with learning?