Even with memories that cause PTSD, it’s not so much the forgetting that helps as the being able to reconsolidate the memories without them being hooked into trauma.
From that article, it seems that knb’s original resolution to not erase any memories is doomed to failure—since the brain already erases our memories and re-writes them using something like a lossy compression scheme each time we recall them.
Even with memories that cause PTSD, it’s not so much the forgetting that helps as the being able to reconsolidate the memories without them being hooked into trauma.
From that article, it seems that knb’s original resolution to not erase any memories is doomed to failure—since the brain already erases our memories and re-writes them using something like a lossy compression scheme each time we recall them.