One can really think of himself only as a multidimensional person. One is defined by many personalities sometimes in conflict one with each other (although most of the time this is an unconscious process).
Think only that you have (and that's roughly) about four different types of memory that you are using every moment to evaluate something, to bring it to life in your own point of view. Semantic, Episodic, Sensorial and Procedural. These memories about "the same thing" are connected (most of the time) but the representations differ in many ways including the anatomical part of where are they stored in our brain.
A very nice article by Paul Bloom - about how one is in fact many - appeared here, in The Atlantic. One of the oldest web shaped form of the theory that I've had the pleasure to track down is here.
If you ignore that article, maybe you are too busy and although I do respectignorants (by ignoring them :) ) - I also understand the benefit of forgetting , it is hard to know everything. You may conjunct it with the information about propanolol and its role in forgetting. Oh, linked with the role of emotions in rational decisions, remembering and encoding information.
Yes, I do remember the beautiful Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
See? Everything is apart apparently but linked nonetheless :-)
