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No, I don't think it's obvious. We forget things for a reason; increasing the level of noise in the human mind doesn't just come with no side effects. Even if t
by yan 17y ago
No, I don't think it's obvious. We forget things for a reason; increasing the level of noise in the human mind doesn't just come with no side effects. Even if the drug works perfectly as intended, not having the ability to forget memories that are irrelevant can be a big disadvantage I'd think.
- khafra 17y agoI don't think you can proceed from "we forget things" to "it's good that we forget things." We get cancer. However, a decade and a half on the internet is enough to convince me that the ability to let certain visual memories fade into oblivion is a good thing.
- joeyo 17y agoThere is fairly good evidence that inability to forget is at least correlated with cognitive and social deficits. For an overview see: http://books.google.com/books?id=BooNAAAACAAJ&dq=The+Mind+of+a+Mnemonist http://books.google.com/books?id=BooNAAAACAAJ&dq=The+Min...