Strange Loop

It is my understanding that our brains encode and then categorize (after incoming info makes it from our working memory, to our short-term memory, and then into our long-term memory) any experiences we have had, or any new phenomena or information we receive from our environments &/or surroundings. So, deep within our brains are files, so to speak, somewhat like a filing cabinet, where this is all stored. And so, the reaching down would be our 'self' reaching into the cabinet, and pulling out a file that pertains to any new experiences or phenomena, and perhaps comparing notes...the new info vs. the old...where we then have the 'choice' to either update the old file, or leave it alone and dispose of the new info as useless. It seems to be a personal choice as to what we accept as useful or useless. Although, I believe that it is also probable that we could also choose to merely add the new info to the old, and thus encode that and store it for future use. It is what draws our attention...what we find important enough, interesting enough, useful enough, to work it through our levels of memory. We touched on this in Psychology, and in particular, 'Eye Witnesses'...who are, regardless of what attorneys may think, all but useless in a courtroom. There can be several eye-witnesses to the exact same incident, and each can/will have his/her own version of 'what happened'. Why? Because they viewed the incident from different places, points of view. They could individually be focusing on completely different aspects of the incident, allowing other aspects of the incident to slip past them, or go completely unnoticed. And in order for anything to even begin to enter into our minds and memories they have to be 'noticed'. We have to be 'aware' of them. We have to be 'conscious' of them. This 'Strange Loop', as the word loop alludes to, is very circular. AND, very individual. Individual because it is our individual 'choices' that decide what we encode and what we don't. And this contributes to just exactly why we are all so different. All of it. What I see may not be what others see. What I find interesting, others may find useless or boring. What others 'think' may not be what I think. Even our personal 'thoughts' are influential in determining what we choose to 'save', and what we 'choose' to discard. How we individually translate incoming information/phenomenon...and whether or not we decide if it is worth thinking about long enough to work into our memory or not. It seems to me that this 'Loop' is our selves choosing to reach into our past selves to determine what our future selves choose to be...or do with themselves. Choices. It would seem to me that this 'Loop' is happening in ourSelves all the time, subconsciously if nothing else...but I wouldn't swear to it, I'm just speaking for mySelf.
"That storm last night was awful!"
"I've seen worse."
"Then why do you stay here?"
"Because I choose to."