according to a new review paper from Paul Frankland, a senior fellow in CIFAR's Child & Brain Development program, and Blake Richards, an associate fellow in the Learning in Machines & Brains program, our brains are actively working to forget. In fact, the two University of Toronto researchers propose that the goal of memory is not to transmit the most accurate information over time, but to guide and optimize intelligent decision making by only holding on to valuable information.
Where do forgotten things go? Or do the ideas simply cease to exist? Maybe forgotten ideas are are somehow reabsorbed into the fabric of information? - a bit like how dead things rot. Or maybe they never really existed in the first place?.....Is it really possible to ever truly forget something? Sometimes I seem to forget that I'm alive.
Anyway, where is the best place to start? We all seem caught up in the middle of something, trying to keep up with things, if you understand the question, you might still need more context.. — believenothing
In fact, the two University of Toronto researchers propose that the goal of memory is not to transmit the most accurate information over time, but to guide and optimize intelligent decision making by only holding on to valuable information.
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say, but some things came to mind as I read. — T Clark
On the other hand, there are parts of my past I am cut off from where the tapestry is faint or cloudy. — T Clark
In fact, the two University of Toronto researchers propose that the goal of memory is not to transmit the most accurate information over time, but to guide and optimize intelligent decision making by only holding on to valuable information.
Sounds plausible. I think I wanted this thread to be a bit like a reject bin, I will come back to it..
I can't think of an example of an insignificant experience so I suppose you make sense in a way, I would like to learn how to control my mind and it seems difficult, perhaps impossible. — believenothing
Where do forgotten things go? Or do the ideas simply cease to exist? Maybe forgotten ideas are are somehow reabsorbed into the fabric of information? - a bit like how dead things rot. Or maybe they never really existed in the first place? — believenothing
They go to new memories. The storage space gets a make-over.Where do forgotten things go? Or do the ideas simply cease to exist? — believenothing
They go to new memories. The storage space gets a make-over. — AngleWyrm
What a delicious line. — Noble Dust
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