remember the Taylor Swift song: “all the lonely Starbucks lovers”? Why do we hum when it’s sentences we don’t know but our brain fills in the blanks (wrongly) when it’s a few missing words?
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Our memory isn’t a bit for bit save the way a computer stores it. It’s all references to other data, like you might remember apple as the color red, sweet, crunchy, and those 3 ideas are also references further down. Obviously this is simplified but that’s why we can store so much knowledge but it’s also why it’s unreliable as a picture perfect memory system. Even those with photographic memory have this unreliability even though it’s way more reliable than normal person.
Essentially our memory is a web of other memories and our brain does its best to fill in everything even if it’s wrong.
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