On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:50 PM, George Wade <[email protected]> wrote: > Imagine if you remembered EVERYTHING ! How distressing and disturbing that > would be. Our ability to 'Forget everything' saves our lives from clutter > and distraction.
How extremely useful that would be. Evolution only makes us forget because memories are expensive, but like with obesity, calories are abundant these days... On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:49 PM, John Francis Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > A story I have enjoyed many times : > > http://robinlea.com/pub/FunesTheMemorious.html Fictional evidence: http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generalization_from/ -- gwern http://www.gwern.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
