Where does memory actually go when you forget?
In: Biology
Memories dont go anywhere.
Thoughts and memories are simply chains of neurons that repeat. Memories change over time. Because we can learn new things about them or we actually forget them.
I cant remember my childhood phone number. I can’t recall that i information right now. I can’t seem to piece together the right string to bring that memory up. But, I will remmeber it if someone says it, or shows me an image.
Your brain isnt a set of information, but rather it uses that I formation for other things.
Now true forgetting happens when your brain is damaged. As in those pathways are actually destroyed, or are no longer connected.
When you actually forget something, nothing is missing, your brain just cant drive the same path. Even if it could, you would see it as new info, and not something you remembered.
Maybe I was to in-depth.
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