how can our brains remember that we forgot something, but it can’t remember what we forgot?

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how can our brains remember that we forgot something, but it can’t remember what we forgot?

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Im thinking its kinda like this: when a program knows a file is supposed to be there, yet it cant be found, an error comes back. Us ‘remebering we forgot something’ is the brain recognizing a missing piece, and its error message.