While there is evidence that we catalogue and store our memories in various parts of our brains, there is no "central database" that we can access in order to cherrypick our memories. False memories can be implanted in a person, but that is largely a matter of suggestibility and either a conscious or unconscious desire to remember a particular event in a particular way. As far as personality is concerned, that is hard wired into each of us by the time we reach the age of 5 or so. One's personality never changes, only ones way of reacting to stimuli based on those hard wired personality traits change.
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