Memory is not an archive, but an active carrying of information into the future. Well organized memory is going to be stored conditionally, with the condition indicating its expected relevance, and thrown away when it expires, such as false beliefs about possible futures.
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hmmm. qualitatively speaking I can see some characteristics of LRU being analogous to short term memory in the brain. I guess what I was thinking about here was the way that long-term memory is moved into and out of "brain cache" based on conditionals that are pretty opaque.
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What if the division between long term memory and working memory is different than we usually think? I noticed that after 8h anesthesia, patients may return to the moment where the anesthesia took hold without noticing the gap...
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