25. It's a Good Thing People Forget

It's a Good Thing People Forget

            It's a fun thought experiment to think of what your life would be like if you could remember ever detail about everything experience you've had. Unfortunately our brains don't have unlimited capacity and such a thing would fry your brain instantly. Instead, our brains are constantly arranging memories, clipping and trimming unneeded and unused information. This results in memories being lost over time. This effect even has its own equation! Hermann Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve: R=e^(-t/s).