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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)1/03/2013 7:13:23 pm PST

re: #52 freetoken

Because we rely so much on our “memory”.

In the old days when life was simpler, yes simpler, knowing where to forage for food in what season may have been the difference between life and death - that was important memorization.

Today what I find increasingly scary is that we our defined by our “information” - an information society we are called.

Yet what if that “information” is mostly highly suspect memories, interpretations of our past?

But it’s not. We have shitloads of records these days, and eyewitness testimony is even losing its lustre in courts.

Basically, this is the least scary time in human history, as far as memory goes. I’d say a much bigger problem is people choosing to remember the wrong information.

I wonder if the increasingly sclerotic political system in this country is the result of groups hardening in their positions, reassured of the rightness of their beliefs because, well, that is what they remember them to be.

Wouldn’t this mean that this should have happened in every country?

If we are animals whose brains are selected for, as an example, making spears and hunting animals, what happens when those brains now have to deal with multi-layered abstractions and societies very far removed from familial tribes?

Our brains are also selected for language and outsmarting other humans, which requires very abstract thinking.

Secondarily, I think it is “scary” that as I get older I now realize that I will slowly lose that which I now know. That’s pretty scary too.

You’ve already lost most of what you knew before, and reinterpreted a lot of it. If you weren’t able to do that, you’d be a robot programmed by memory.