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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Imagine your brain is like an *extremely* cluttered computer with no reliable search function. You can search and get most things you need, but the stuff you haven’t opened in the while doesn’t show up.
So you’re on your desktop and randomly you need a certain file, that you haven’t thought about for years. So you start looking for it. Obviously, it’s going to take a very long time.
The difference between randomly recalling a memory is that, you aren’t starting from a desktop, you’re starting from a file that leads to another file of similar nature, that leads to your undesired random memory.
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