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On 15 Mar 2001, at 21:06, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> Hi Joe E. Dees -
>
> >isn't that what specialization's all about?
>
> Yup. Learning more and more about less and less until we know it all
> about nothing, to use that little phrase....
>
> Yes, though, specialization is an evolutionary trick too.
>
> But, I again look at the topic, and remember why I posted that article
> in the first place.
>
> What about the triggers of forgetting?
>
If we consider memory to be a text of experience, and subsequent
experience to be continually inscribing upon and overwriting the
same parchment, the minor details and routine experiences would
become obliterated first; thus broad outlines, pivotal points, and the
unusual would be remenbered longer. Finally, the inscibing
experiential context would be destroyed, and that which remained
would no longer be concrete memory, but abstract knowledge.
>
> >there can be a
> >trading off of breadth for depth.
>
> Or a narrowing of focus due to the walls caving in....
>
> - Wade
>
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