 Sufficiently moderate versions of preservationism and generationism may not be incompatible. In order to account for deviations from perfect storage, preservationists may acknowledge the active, constructive character of remembering. And, since stored information provides the raw materials out of which the subject constructs representations of the past, generationists need not deny that remembering involves storage of information. Less moderate versions of preservationism and generationism, however, may be incompatible. Some preservationists deny that genuine remembering is consistent with the inclusion in the retrieved memory representation of content that goes beyond the content that was included in the subject’s original experience of the event (e.g., Bernecker (2010)). Some generationists, meanwhile, grant that remembering involves the preservation of information originating in experience but deny that genuine remembering requires the inclusion in the retrieved memory representation of any content that was included in the subject’s original experience of the event (e.g., Michaelian 2016c). It is difficult to see how these more extreme preservationist and generationist conceptions might be reconciled with each other.