grendelkhan comments on Eternal Sunshine of the Rational Mind - Less Wrong

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Comment author: grendelkhan 18 October 2013 06:24:41PM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: ialdabaoth 18 October 2013 06:57:11PM 0 points [-]

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.