How does your brain know whether to keep something as short term or long term memory?
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The latest evidence shows the brain creates both short and long term memories simultaneously.
As for ‘knows’, it can be manipulated by will if you repeat the information enough times using active learning(space repetition). The first work of this was called [the forgetting curve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve)
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