IME memories are stronger and more coherent than those of imagined events
This argument is used in the debate Does God exist?.
This argument is an objection to IMEs are simple hallucinations.
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“So, one of the questions that arises in connection with I.M.E. is that of the veracity of experiencers' memories. True or false memories?
Vanessa Charland-Verville, a neuropsychologist at the University of Liège, studied this phenomenon for her thesis with 319 people. She found that the experience was more real than the reality. Using a rigorous methodology including the Memory characteristic questionnaire, Vanessa Charland-Verville first compared real memories with imagined memories. The latter are much less intense than real memories.
In the case of false memories, it is still risky to compare them with imagined memories or I.M.E.s. The latter are not comparable with imagined memories or false memories. And it's difficult to equate them with hallucinations or dreams. There's clearly something going on in the brain that science has yet to understand.”
