“Our memories are deeply flawed and we would be happier if we accepted it.” – Dr. Julia Shaw Meet Dr. Julia Shaw, criminal psychologist and author of The Memory Illusion. Julia appeared on Vice with a controversial memory hacking experiment. It asked could false memories be deliberately placed in people’s minds? What’s more, Julia now states that anything you remember before you were about two-and-a-half years old is a false memory. “You could call my work memory hacking — I break into people’s memories and get them to recall in great detail events that have never actually happened.” “Every memory you have ever had is chock-full of errors. I would even go as far as saying that memory is largely an illusion.” “It’s such a terrifying but beautiful notion that every day you wake up with a slightly different personal past.” Dr. Shaw introduces her new book The Memory Illusion: Dr. Shaw is a psychological scientist and an icon what the future looks like today – smart, healthy, beautiful, compassionate and collected. Interestingly her work now involves criminology and understanding the science of memory. She discusses topics like: It´s not just about how much information we can cram into our memories, it´s also about how much …