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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, ca
by rvr_ 4y ago
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.
- can16358p 4y agoProbably evolutionary: our brains have evolved into hardcoding those memories to avoid getting into that bad situation again.
- derefr 4y agoOr, 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.