Comment by Davidzheng 3 days ago
I don't think forgetting correctly is something humans are really good at. I'm not convinced human brains are "exceptionally good" at much of what we do tbh. I think human brain memory capacity is so large that most of forgetting is nowhere near "clearing space for new info" but because the brain correctly knows that some past bad information interferes with learning new things.
Eh, I'd disagree. First the human brain is an evolutionary miracle when it comes to filtering. When you walk in a new room and then are questioned about it later you will most likely remember things like the door or where set some object, but after that your brain will filter out and just make up details as needed.
The other thing is the brain down values and prunes paths we don't use and strengthens one's we do. This is why something you've not done it a while might need a refresher for you to do right again.
Yea, As far as im aware we have no true idea of the limits of human memory. Either way its amazing that the hippocampus can encode sequences of neurons firing somewhere and replay them later.