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#554 Felipe De Brigard: Memory, Imagination, and Free Will

The Dissenter

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How Do We Function Normally to Forget Things?

Why is it important for us to function normally to forget things? I mean, what would happen if we were to remember every single detail of everything that happened in our lives? And couldn't forget them. Forgetting occurs at different levels, right? Ah. So here is one example of forgetting that i think is is essential emotion. When you have a very negative memory, your memory system has a sort of innate strategy to make the negativety fade away. That's one component, an one instance in which forgetting is extremely adaptive. Here are other instances in which forgetting was extremely adaptive. Sometimes th details are distracting for generalization. It is very important to forget distinct details and to hih

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