what determines what things we remember and what things we forget?
In: Biology
Imagine a large forest.
You have a few favourite trees so you keep visiting those particular trees and in the process paths form. Those paths are well trodden so they get maintained naturally. Something happens and you stop visiting a particular tree. After a while the path gets overgrown and eventually it can’t be seen at all. The tree is still there, but the path is gone.
There might still be some little references to the tree but it would be difficult or even impossible to find the previous path.
Eventually you might find that tree again and rebuild the path allowing you to quickly access it.
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