Forgetfulness – it is a feature not a bug ( Don’t you feel better now ? )

Forgetfulness – it is a feature not a bug ( Don’t you feel better now ? )

https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/10396-neuroscience-says-there-s-a-huge-upside-to-being-forgetful If you were stuck remembering everything about everything, like some kind of King Midas of the mind, it would be harder to adapt to our unrelentingly changing world. Persistence of memory “is only useful when it maintains those aspects of experience that are either relatively stable and/or predictive of new experiences,” the authors write….