Ted Chiang wrote an essay about the implications of recording everything: "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of

Ted Chiang wrote an essay about the implications of recording everything: "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_of_Feeling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o... The essay does not deal very much with technical aspects, like "Do I want to remember this and that banality?". In the story, those questions are already solved as an AI will manage access to the desired "flashbacks". The essay focusses more on the question, how "remodeling" our memory over time might be an important aspect of social interaction, self perception and self development.