Re: is forgetting adaptive?

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 14:22:41 GMT

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On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 07:51 , Scott Chase wrote:

> If something is no longer current or pressing, why remember it?
> Wouldn't it be better for this memory (or at least its particulars) to
> recede, allowing space for newer, more pertinent, information?

If time would only stand still, we would remember everything.

- Wade

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