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?
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It’s about how integrated that memory is with other sensory information. You can’t remember that one fact for math class because you were in your normal room, staring at a normal piece of paper, and everything was normal. But imagine if that math fact was something that your favorite artist yelled at you on your birthday when you went to see them at your favorite concert venue. Notice how you have so many notable strings that connect you to that fact in the second example. Similarly, these random memories that you remember in detail are like webs that connect to other memories and so all you have to do is pull on one and you are able to remember everything else.
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