Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the smallest scales, erasing information is not free, it consumes energy and ...

Although painful or traumatic memories can be difficult to forget, there are ways to manage them. Identifying your triggers, talking to a therapist, memory suppression, exposure therapy, and ...

Of the various ways that memory shows its imperfections, the most prevalent by far is forgetting. We forget much of what we read, watch, think, and encounter directly in the world. (Of course, we also ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. That’s a tall order and a big question that we all face from ...