Mind body dualism

Awesome question! Studies have confirmed that the more you recall some past event, the more distorted the memory can become. I don't think the present consensus is something as easy to imagine as making copies of copies, but I think it is more a case of recreating the memories and sometimes incorporating facts you have later learned into the memories. Like how some people have a memory of watching the first plane hit the WTC on television live (The first plane hit (I saw that on TV), then the second (I saw that) AND I watched it live...therefore...)Another example, the case of the woman who became absolutely convinced that her rapist was the man in the dock. Completely sure of it. She clearly remembered his face, his voice and so on so strongly she was prepared to send the man to prison.The man later, by pure 'luck', shared a cell with a convicted rapist who confessed to committing the very rape he was found guilty of. He managed to convince the powers that be to run a DNA test, which confirmed it. The woman, seeing her actual rapist - at first denied that it was him and thought it was all a malicious story on her so-called rapist's behalf. The faux rapist was pardoned, the real rapist was sentenced.They faux rapist and the real victim went on to become good friends. How sweet? I'm having difficulty finding the specific case based on that information because now there are many similar stories and it's difficult to sort through them (like a woman who identified a neighbour as her rapist, and he was charged despite him having a cast-iron alibi - he was on national television during the time of the rape...it just so happened she saw him on TV (a member of the audience, not a celeb or something) during the rape and presto memory-error, but this isn't a case of repeated recall)Anyway, I believe the process is known as memory reconsolidation.