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One difference is that eating is such a normal and low effort activity for us that there is no point for the brain to remember it. But if you were surviving in
by ripper1138 5y ago
One difference is that eating is such a normal and low effort activity for us that there is no point for the brain to remember it. But if you were surviving in the wild, I bet you’d have much better memory of meals since they would all be somewhat ‘special’ in the sense that you are still alive!
- hyperpallium2 5y agoIf you had to every meal, and were seriously hungry, and every hunt was different, I think you'd remember many of them as well as your favourite book/movie/tv episode, insight, bug solved, life-event. Routine is what kills memory.
- progre 5y agoThe brain is just not storing redundant copies of events that has the same neural hash.