Memories aren’t an objective tape recording. Memories are the brain’s model of the world. You spend your life refining your model of the world. Your earliest me

Memories aren’t an objective tape recording. Memories are the brain’s model of the world. You spend your life refining your model of the world. Your earliest memories were initial rough approximations (misinterpretations, if you will) that are later superseded by better (more predictive) approximations. So you forget (they don’t activate as predictions) the old inaccurate (less predictive) memories in favor of the newer (more predictive) memories.