Dr. David Eagleman

Right.

So anyway, but that's one thing the legal system tries to do and tries not to take it as gospel.

Oh, but kids are actually more susceptible to memory manipulation.

So Elizabeth Loftus at Irvine ran these studies years ago where she – well, here's – sorry, this is slightly different.

But what she's doing in these cases is she says to someone, hey, I talked to your parents.

She actually did talk to the person.

And she says, I found out a story from when you were younger.

About the time you got lost in the mall and you were found by this woman in a red hat who then, you know, found your parents and so on.

And it turns out she can make these stories completely up and people will come to believe these.

And when she interviews them a week later, that is just part of the fact of their life resume is that they were lost in the mall and found this woman in the red hat and so on.

Well, here's what I think.

Look, you and I grew up in a slightly different world where if I count the number of childhood photos that I have that I see, you know, I've got like little landmarks every couple of years.

Oh, that was me at eight years old standing in front of my house in Albuquerque and that was me at 10 years old and so on.

But now, you know, we have an Alexa in our kitchen and it's constantly cycling through the pictures of my kids who see that every day.

Oh, that was me a few years ago.

That was me last month and so on.

I think kids are now much more tightly tied to their memory in a way that might prove very useful.

Unuseful in the sense that maybe you can't get away from your childhood, but useful in the sense that at least your memory is going to be slightly more accurate because you're getting, you know, repetition.

You're getting spaced repetition on it.

I suspect it's a social issue, yeah.