Memory and Forgetting
Radiolab
Memory: More Creative than Digital Storage
Memory is not a simple digital storage like a hard drive with zeros and ones; it's a creative act of reconstruction, similar to painting or sculpture. Our brains create and reconstruct memories, not just store them as digital information. The way we remember things is dynamic and ever-changing, more akin to the creative process of art than the static nature of digital data. Memory is not a static file to be retrieved but a fluid and creative process of reconstructing experiences.
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