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Re:Severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM) in heal... by rvr_ on Saturday July 16, 2022 @11:28AM (#32119065)
Truth is, our lizard brains are always forgetting the good stuff that happened but remembering every detail of some random shameful event nobody, except you, cares about.
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Re:Severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM) in heal... by can16358p on Saturday July 16, 2022 @01:03PM (#32119878)
Probably evolutionary: our brains have evolved into hardcoding those memories to avoid getting into that bad situation again.
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Re:Severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM) in heal... by derefr on Saturday July 16, 2022 @02:27PM (#32120574)
Or, to put that another way: of what practical use is a memory of being content? It has no informational content to feed to your predictive model of the world.

Memories of unexpectedly getting rewards are quite salient, of course, because those train you to get more rewards.

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