: How do we forget something easily even if we try to remember it as hard as we can, but the same thing comes to our mind when we are not even thinking about it?

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: How do we forget something easily even if we try to remember it as hard as we can, but the same thing comes to our mind when we are not even thinking about it?

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I’m a programmer and I saw how real and software neurons works. I’m not a specialist on either ones, but this is what I remember:

Each neuron stores information, and it creates connections with other neurons. Information is stored redundatly. So lets say you forgot the name of apple brand, you want to say it, but you can only say iphone, expensive and electronics. Why does this happens?

Well, lets asume that on each neuron there is information about only one word:

Neuron A: Apple
Neuron B: Iphone
Neuron C: Expensive
Neuron D: Electronic

Now, information on our brain is being moved all the time.(Not sure if ALL THE TIME, but it definitely moves). So now, information that was on Neuron A is no longer there, but don’t worry, there has always been a backup of this on A235 and F192, so you haven’t lost it. As I’ve said before, lost information is stored on several neurons at the same time.
So, whenever your brain whants to find A, he knows he can be reached through B, C and D. Except that at this time, “Apple” is not on Neuron A, or Neuron A died. So you brain is following the path you normally use to reach that information, except that it isn’t there anymore. Its like if you have the google maps gps onto your favorite food truck, but now it has changed locations. You go there, but it is no longer there because it has been moved.
So, you do other stuff and suddenly something happens:
Neuron A is back online
Information is back on neuron A
A new sinapsis is made to relate B-C-D with a backup neuron A235
Other similar stuff in your brain, I’m by no means an specialist.

So now you can either find it agin in the same place or in a new one. The food truck equivalent would be that either the truck comes back to the same place you used to know, or you go around and find it somewhere else and save this to your google map GPS.

I’m unsure if I’ve been clear, and it has been a long time since I studied that.