how can our brains remember that we forgot something, but it can’t remember what we forgot?
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Because “having some information” and “knowing that you have some information” are two entirely different pieces of…erm.. information.
Think of it like pictures on your computer. The content of the picture and the name of the file that contains the picture are two different pieces of information that have to be stored independently by your computer. It is entirely possible to lose content (corrupt the file) while still having its correct filename. In the same way it is possible to mangle the file name but have the content of the file intact.
So fundamentally, you shouldn’t even expect that the brain should necessarily remember them in an all-or-one manner. You can remember one but not the other.
You can also have situations where you are just go to a room and then don’t remember why you went there. In this case, you remember where you had to go, but not why.
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