Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read
… and the movies and TV shows we watch
Atlantic Monthly
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/what-was-this-article-about-again/551603/
“Books, shows, movies, and songs aren’t files we upload to our brains—they’re part of the tapestry of life, woven in with everything else. From a distance, it may become harder to see a single thread clearly, but it’s still in there.
“It’d be really cool if memories were just clean—information comes in and now you have a memory for that fact,” Horvath says. “But in truth, all memories are everything.””
Stephen
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