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I 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 enou
by khafra 17y ago
I 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...