The Architecture of Forgetting
Why Lost Memories May Not Be Truly Lost
Alexis O. Kaya, M.D., Ph.D., Neuroscientist.
This essay argues that forgetting should not be understood solely as the erasure of stored information. Although neurological injury, neurodegeneration, and biological decay can produce genuine loss, many failures of memory may arise from disrupted access within distributed neural architecture. Memories are no…
