Re:Can your brain really be full?
by danieltillett on Friday June 05, 2015 @09:41AM
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Yes you can choose to some extent what to remember, but if you have a good memory it is impossible to recall all your old memories so you don't forget them. My memory is still really good (I am hardly suffering from dementia), but it is not able to add new memories without losing the old. I hate this, but I can't really do anything about it :(
Technically, our brains do get full, even this article basically says so.
It's just that we don't experience error messages or shut down when that happens - instead, old memories are replaced with new ones.
The total capacity is limited, but the ability to create new memories is unhindered.
I wish we could choose what we forget, but it seems it's possible to choose what you remember - just relearn that stuff or recall it more often, then it will be at the top of the search results, so to say :-)