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Active Forgetting: Why Your Brain Deletes Memories on Purpose
Forgetting isn't a failure of memory. It's a deliberate neural process, powered by dopamine and fine-tuned by evolution, that keeps your brain functional.
Casey Cooper·

Forgetting isn't a failure of memory. It's a deliberate neural process, powered by dopamine and fine-tuned by evolution, that keeps your brain functional.

New research reveals a troubling pattern: AI tools improve our performance while simultaneously making us believe we're even better than we actually are.