I have 3 buckets of memory in the system I’m building. Short-term/working memory, mid-term memory, and long-term memory.
In organic brains we write the days memories to long-term memory but they’re not fully committed yet. When we sleep we riffle through all of the days memories and select which memories we want to fully commit to long-term memory and which memories we want to forget. Selectively forgetting memories is key otherwise our brains would be cluttered with billions of irrelevant memories.
In my system I use mid-term memory to temporarily hold the days memories and I’m working on an artificial sleep cycle to perform the consolidation step. Knowing which memories are worth keeping is the tricky bit so just wondering if you’re doing anything interesting here