I wonder if emotional memories play a mediating role here. If I am right that the reproduction of procedural memories is the mind’s doing, then what the mind chooses (perhaps unconsciously) to reproduce may be those things to which it feels the greatest emotional attachment. This is consistent with my theory that memory is stored in the subconscious and would mean that all memories are implicit at their core, the difference being that declarative memories present themselves to conscious awareness, whereas the implicit may remain unconscious even when they are expressed behaviorally or
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