Every time you recall something, it is a two-way connection. Memory is retrieved, new information incorporating including how it feels at present, and rewritten back to the source, also incorporating a lot of not consciously accessed parts of the memory.
Refresh. Constant refresh.
I think as we get older / brain more use, the compression routines (for lack of a better phrase) get better and more efficient. In some cases, more accurate and precise. For others, too much so.
There’s absolutely unbelievable amount of room to work with in the brain.
Also comparison to, machines isn’t quite correct for the brain can get better and improve over use, not as a muscle but like NOTHING man-made to compare it to.
The brain is more like a society of people over time. A society can get better at what it does over time or it can get worse, but it’s always changing in some way.
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Look at pattern recognition. When young, you need a lot of room and growth to accommodate the processes needed to form models of the world.
But once you have decent models, what do you need all that space and growth for? You don’t. You have decent models. It takes FAR less energy to reconfigure an existing model than it does to create a new model from lots of little parts.
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