False Memories

Confusingly, some had remembered their experience as an actual memory of having been once stood up, which meant that the fictional story had ingratiated itself into their autobiographical story of self. If a brain is a prediction engine, some memory researchers argued, then would not even false memories, trapped in or as synapses and that shape the brain's predictions, count as internal to their owner? What if the Al makes Anna play Dinner Date and she remembers it as really having happened to her? We should prepare, they warned.

I’ve had memories of places I’ve been only to realize that they were in a video game. I’ve thought about some of my experiences in some games as something that I went through, not to the point where I would mistake my life for the game or vice versa, but that what happened in the game that it seemed really visceral.

House, P. (2022). Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness. St. Martin’s Press. p. 56