I simply cannot decide whether memory is a good or bad property of our incomprehensible minds. Why the hell is it impossible to remember important stuff like birthdates or anniverseries (which are important to some people), deadlines, documentation and billions of other things which might actually have bearing on your life? Instead, I seem to remember some trauma-inducing comments made by nursery or kindergarten teachers aeons ago and other random scraps of data (not information) which I have tried to suppress from reoccurring in my mind but failed. Maybe the very act of suppression causes reinforcement, which, on a macro scale would explain why censorship and draconian rulers are meant to fail.
I would also very much like to forget the fact that my uncle once said that "Birth is evitable but death is inevitable." Was probably the last thing I remember him saying, which was, relativistically speaking, aeons ago. Relative to my own perseption of course.
(Sorry Mr Albert, if I just made you do a 180.)
What purpose does memory serve? Does the past have any bearing on the future? Sure people will say without knowledge of the past, we make the same mistakes in the future. But how the hell do you avoid the mistake of dying? And whether its a mistake in the first place is a different story altogether.
Ah enough of this necromaniac rants. Gotta move on with life and all that shit-fuck. Sounds condolencing when you say it but hollow when you hear it.
Selective amnesia should be made into an over-the-counter pill. Sometimes I wonder what these fools in bio-med are really doing.
1 comment:
A vendetta against the bio-med industry? Lol.
Memory: synaptic connections all over the brain. The more abundant the connections, the clearer and long-lived the memory.
So if you cant remember stuff, then blame it on yourself, for not tagging that factoid as important and linking it to a million relevant thoughts as soon as you decide to take heed of it. I know, I failed that module too.
Purpose of memory: well you could go ito the esoteric and read up on the collective subconcious, the purely biological, and read up the relationship between conditioned reflexes and memory, or artistically, and wax poetry about prioritising which memories you wanna keep [which is really quite stupid, cos if speculation is to be believed and we really only use 4-10% of our brains, and the potential is close to infinity, then "deleting" irrelevant memory would be like clearing 1-2kb spam on your 15th spare GMail account! and then some. Got to go.]
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