Do you remember the day you learned how to perform long division?
The purpose of memory pruning is not to “forget” useful or even contradictory information, but to condense it so that the useful bits of the memory take less context and be more immediately accessible in situations that need it.
The purpose of memory pruning is not to “forget” useful or even contradictory information, but to condense it so that the useful bits of the memory take less context and be more immediately accessible in situations that need it.