why our brains can form arbitrary memories from seemingly random events and recall them perfectly but its hard to memorize something when you are intentionally trying to memorize it?

Question

why our brains can form arbitrary memories from seemingly random events and recall them perfectly but its hard to memorize something when you are intentionally trying to memorize it?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I know that it’s not an answer, but on day one of neurobiology 101 in college, the first thing that my professor said was “I know that you guys came here to learn about the brain. But we don’t actually know anything concrete. It’s up to you guys to help us figure this out as you get into your doctorates.” I wound up learning a lot, but I found out that most of the brain is still a mystery. We learn things, but we find out that a lot of what we “knew” was wrong. So take everything that you hear as an answer here with a grain of salt.