"The Memory's a *funny* thing - isn't it?<br /><br />An incredible feat of engineering, it sits in the medial temporal lobe, <br />and it's most impressive FUNCTION : Is It's FILING System.<br /><br />It's better than ANYTHING a Supercomputer could do.<br /><br />Another of My Favourite Facts - given that, <br />THAT'S What This Trial is All about : <br />Right Answers, <br />Wrong Answers, <br />Knowledge -- Truth <br /><br />....is that, when we are remembering something, <br />we're not *actually* recalling The Original Event.... <br />What we are *DOING* , <br />is remembering the LAST time, we remembered it --<br /><br />So we are CONSTANTLY wiping Our Pasts, <br />and editing together A NEW One - <br /><br />One that makes SENSE to Us, NOW -- in The Present.<br /><br />ALL Memories, therefore, <br />are by Definition : <br /><br />A Lie.<br /><br />They change.<br />WE change them.<br />Which isn't A Crime, A Conspiracy, just.... <br /><br />Human Nature.<br /><br />We can project Guilt, say - <br />Back onto An Event <br />That was, in fact, *perfectly* innocent.<br /><br /><br />I'm asking you all <br />To Try and Resist<br />A More Entertaining Falsehood <br />in favour of less-extraordinary Truth :<br /><br />That Major Ingram simply knew The Answers to those Questions --<br />And *THAT'S* Why He Got Them RIGHT.
