Each act of remembering is also an act of forgetting, a reconfiguration of the past that, paradoxically, makes it less accurate. Your memories, then, are like Heisenberg's particles: to observe them is to alter them.
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Reply · Mar 24, 2024@TheAnnaGat replaying and reacting to the memories again and again, less frequently over time, until your brain really updates that they're goneReply · Aug 18, 2023@Pathless110 it's more of a temporal distortion thing, it happens when my mind is misbehavingReply · Oct 7, 2022@ogmawoo Not silly at all if you read about the difficulties of eyewitness testimony esp as time passes… our brains are always retraining to integrate…Reply · Oct 3, 2023@gnopercept learning to integrate recent experiences into memory somehow requires that future memories build atop the last integration point so you…