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/

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