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Eee...memory in a human doesn't work the same as memory in a computer (which your sortof illustrated with your car keys example). It's not like your brain just
by blhack 16y ago
Eee...memory in a human doesn't work the same as memory in a computer (which your sortof illustrated with your car keys example).
It's not like your brain just deletes entire memories; your brain simply does not work that way.
You'd never have a second first kiss, or a second time learning how to ride a bike, or a time when you got to fall in love with your wife again...you wouldn't forget about having kids, and get to experience raising them again.
Just as exploring the river-bed near my childhood home isn't exciting to me anymore (sadly), you'd have to be continually seeking out new experiences in order to get that positive you're-doing-something-new feedback from your brain.
- gxti 16y ago> It's not like your brain just deletes entire memories; your brain simply does not work that way. A brain, like any arrangement of atoms, can only hold so many bits of information. The more you cram in there the more degraded older and less intense memories get until you can't recall more than a vague feeling, and eventually nothing at all. Probably one could hold a few memories close to heart and be able to avoid forgetting them, but anything you didn't continually refresh would be gone after the first few hundred years. Often, "forgotten" memories are still hanging around but have nothing to trigger them, but those too must disappear eventually to make room for new stuff.
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