The Mediterranean Sea is shrinking

[JohnEmmett]

Can you draw us a map?

Yes…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/

 

[SelfSim]

I remember Australia being a continent because it sat on its own tectonic plate (and owned everything on it).
None of this 'Oceania' politically based business ..

Oh and New Zealand's mountains were really just sort of loaned out to them because it was clear cut that Australia deserved some real mountains!

 

[JohnEmmett]

I remember Australia being a continent … None of this 'Oceania' business

Keep watching the map

 

[SelfSim]

Keep watching the map

The map is the territory ..

Territory is just a different type of map.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Territory is just a different type of map.

Are you saying we are in a simulation?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Oh and New Zealand's mountains

New Zealand is the highest of an eighth continent

 

[SelfSim]

Are you saying we are in a simulation?

No.
Maps and terrain are demonstrably, perceptual models created by our minds.

 

[SelfSim]

New Zealand is the highest of an eighth continent

'An eighth' continent, eh?
Is there, somehow, a numbered sequence stamp on each continent?

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Yes…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/

Did you read the whole article?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Did you read the whole article?

Articles say it is false memory

So?

 

[JohnEmmett]

'An eighth' continent, eh?

An eighth continent, called Zealandia, is hidden under New Zealand and the surrounding Pacific.

https://www.businessinsider.com/

 

[SelfSim]

An eighth continent, called Zealandia, is hidden under New Zealand and the surrounding Pacific.

https://www.businessinsider.com/

Won't count as a false memory .. because its submerged.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Won't count as a false memory

You think it’s possible to remember the same … falsely?

 

[SelfSim]

You think it’s possible to remember the same things … falsely?

Well, that was the point the article you posted was making, no(?)
And it supported that point, with evidence that, (for eg), quite a few other people remembered New Zealand as being located in the Indian Ocean.

What I think about the phenomenon they're pointing out though, is different from what they intended me to think.

 

[JohnEmmett]

What I think about the phenomenon they're pointing out though

what do you think?

 

[SelfSim]

what do you think?

Hold the horses! There's something weird going on with the board software for me at the moment .. (apologies).
Parts of what you posted weren't showing up for me, so I answered a different question to what you asked .. weird.

I do agree that its possible for large groups of people 'to remember the same things the same way .. falsely' (which is a different question).
The way they're remembering those things, is by way of their assuming that what they saw when they were kids, were truly accurate maps of the world. They then went onto become adults believing that those maps were 'true representations' of the earth's above-ocean geography. Turns out, that particular 'assumed truth' wasn't founded on objectively sourced data.

 

[JohnEmmett]

wasn't founded on objectively sourced data.

I am a rational person and I remember Shazam

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Articles say it is false memory

So?

So you obviously know better than those who study these things, right?

 

[SelfSim]

I am a rational person and I remember Shazam

Relies solely on what that person means by 'existed'.
Highly condensed summary; is that there are only two known (demonstrable) ways to give that word a meaning .. via the scientific method or by way of beliefs.
Which way do you think that person was using when it comes to their notion of 'Shazam existing'?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Relies solely on what that person means by 'existed'.

Try again