Anamnesia: The Architecture of what we choose to remember

Memory is not a junk drawer of past events. It is a construction. What we call remembering...especially deliberate, willful remembering...is often an act of curation rather than recovery of fact. When we try to recall something on purpose, we tend to replace the raw, unruly past with a clean narrative that our present self finds acceptable. We imagine ourselves master of memory. We believe that by…