Wow, that's quite a long time. Why did you begin? Are you remorseful you can't find your lists? Did you transition to electronic formats as technology progressed?
A video camera 1984 solved the remembering problem totally. I know exactly what happened thereafter.
Anyways various archives seem to be more and more important with age, as human physical memory is only 7 years long. Thereafter there are only memories of memories, which often get twisted in the weirdest of ways.
"Dream of an apartment separated from opera restaurant by a glass wall only" is the first good one..
I hate to be that guy, but... you have no idea what you're talking about.
Remembering something is like pulling a note out of a cabinet. It gets saved from the back, where the papers tend do degrade. Then, it gets put at the front. The trick is, the original note isn't put at the front. A copy is made. So remembering tends to reinforce, but also can change during this lossy copying process.
None of them "churn".
"The memory-of-a-memory thing"
That "isn't a thing".
"I don't remember the exact science"
You also have no idea what you're talking about.
"I do remember the metaphor I came up with (evidence in my favor!)"
I have no words.
"Remembering something is like pulling a note out of a cabinet."
Not really, no.
"lossy"
Please just stop.
"copying"
Memory is a "copying process"?
Please guys... please just stop.
> None of them "churn".
By churn I mean "lose and hopefully be replaced". That definitely happens. Some brain cells die and are replaced, some live your whole life (or die first)[0].
The cabinet is just a simile for cued recall[1]. More recently learned/recalled items are remembered better (front of the cabinet)[2]. Recalling memories in a different context can change them[3], suggesting recall isn't a "read only" operation.
[0] https://www.livescience.com/33179-does-human-body-replace-ce... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_(memory)#Cued_recall [2] https://memory.psych.upenn.edu/files/pubs/KahaMill10.pdf [3] https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2012/09/your-memory-is...