Memory and Learning · Brain
A brain that kept everything would be worse, not better.
Forgetting feels like failure. It mostly isn't. A memory system that retained everything equally would bury what matters under an avalanche of what doesn't.
There's more: a brain that kept everything would be worse, not better. The full explanation — and the interactive version you can tap and quiz yourself on — lives in the app.
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