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Forgetting May be Part of the Remembering Process
CFTM writes "The New York Times is running an interesting article about how human memory works and the theorized adaptive nature of forgetfulness". From the article, "Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample opportunity every day to curse their own forgetfulness. But forgetting is also a blessing, and researchers reported on Sunday that the ability to block certain memories reduces the demands on the brain when it is trying to recall something important. The study, appearing in the journal Nature Neuroscience, is the first to record visual images of people's brains as they suppress distracting memories. The more efficiently that study participants were tuning out irrelevant words during a word-memorization test, the sharper the drop in activity in areas of their brains involved in recollection. Accurate remembering became easier, in terms of the energy required."
I hope I remember to smoke more pot.
Stop making excuses for dupes.
I'm sure I will have remembered by the time the dupe gets here though
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Damn, I knew I was forgetting to do something. Tomorrow, I will index my brain, if I can remember.
An old couple both have Alzheimer's. One day they're watching TV and an ad for a burger place comes on.
Man says: "Hey, want to make some burgers?"
Woman says: "Sure, what to you want on yours?
Man: "I want lettuce, tomatoes and onions. Don't forget; lettuce, tomatoes and onions."
Woman: "Got it. Lettuce, tomatoes and onions."
A good hour goes by and she finally comes from the kitchen and hands her husband a plate of bacon and eggs. He says "You idiot! You forgot the toast!"
Trolling is a art,
"Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
"That's because you were drunk!"
"And how!"
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw."
Yeah but usally when I do a
SELECT what_happened FROM drunken_weekend_haze WHERE night = 'saturday';
It's followed immediately by OMG I did what!!!!!! Followed in turn by
DELETE FROM drunken_weekend_haze WHERE embarrassing_episode = True;
Then when people say "Good weekend?" I can almost truthfully respond "Yeah but I got pissed and I can't remember a whole lot of it"
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Man I must've "fogotten" one very different time in my life. My fiancee will be very upset.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Fortunately your friend has a transaction log and can help you rebuild the deleted records later.
Personally, I think that ...
Exception in thread "Surf" java.lang.NullPointerException
at Slashdot.Post(Slashdot.java:1061)
at Slashdot.Read(Slashdot.java:75)
at MyBrain.main(MyBrain.java:4038)
[Insert pithy quote here]
I cannot remember that I have ever forgotten anything.
Gonzales, is that you?
I don't think that forgetting even more things will help you remember more at this point in time...
Remembering is the opposite of dismembering. It's just that sometimes you forget that you left one of the legs in the freezer.
How many times have you sat around and wasted time thinking about things you wish you could forget (ex's, deceased family members, disturbing conversations, etc.).
Goatse
Table-ized A.I.
Sometime ago I had a t-shirt that had this written:
The more I study, the more I know.
The more I know, the more I forget...
The more I forget, the less I know.
So why study?
Finally, a good excuse for forgetting my girlfriend's birthday: I'm remembering something "more important". Wait... that won't work.
:-P
Yes, I post on slashdot. Yes, I have a real, live, breathing girlfriend.
- I voted for Nintendo and against Bush
My memory reports that Wikipedia is currently discredited.
Ah yes... the good ol' linked mist!
which is like saying that most software states are caused by an imbalance of 1s and 0s
As a computer technician, I welcome our vaguely interpreted and rather imaginary methodology of fixing computers... err.... overlords.
Please stop stalking me, bro.