The Geometry of Forgetting

ArXi:2604.06222v1 Announce Type: cross Why do we forget? Why do we remember things that never happened? The conventional answer points to biological hardware. We propose a different one: geometry. Here we show that high-dimensional embedding spaces, subjected to noise, interference, and temporal degradation, reproduce quantitative signatures of human memory with no phenomenon-specific engineering. Power-law forgetting ($b = 0.460 \pm 0.183$, human $b \approx 0.5$) arises from interference among competing memories, not from decay.