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The Emotional Valence of Memory
How does the brain and body decide which information or memory is worthy of being stored? Is it that there's a high emotional charge or trauma, either negative or positive that's associated with it? And that's what gets stored. Your own personal experiences play a huge role in terms of what you will remember and what you will forget. But how that happens, I don't know. No, no, nobody does. All we know is that it happens, which is the first step. We know also that it's very subjective,. like what may be important to you may not be important to me.