
Scott Small: The Point of Forgetting
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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Is It a Disease or a Symptom of Aging?
Allan: I didn't know he had something to say on sleep. He did. And it turns out that he was right. Most of what happens in our brain, not only, and there's a lot of reasons to sleep, is to basically trim down our memories,. To mow the lawn of memor so we wake up the following day with a clean slate. The idea that we need remembering, we need forgetting. We have to hit the right balance between the two.
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