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Every time you recall a memory, you rewrite it.
A memory is not a recording that gets replayed; it is reconstructed every time you recall it. Retrieval makes the memory briefly unstable, and it must be stored again — so details present at recall can be written into the original, and your most-told stories are the most edited.
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- Recalling a memory pulls it into a briefly unstable, editable state.
- It then has to be saved again — a process called reconsolidation.
- Details present at recall can be written into the original. Your most-told stories are the most edited.
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