> 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 man

> 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.