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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."
Dammit man try washing your underwear sometime. It removes the stickiness.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Eh? What are you talking about?
remembering is somehow similar to dismembering?
?
Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home a little place of their own
the Fletcher memorial
home for incurable tyrants and kings
And they can appear to themselves every day
on closed circuit T.V.
To make sure they're still real
It's the only connection they feel
"ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Reagan and Haig
Mr. begin and friends Mrs. Thatcher and paisley
Mr. Brezhnev and party
the ghost of McCarthy
the memories of Nixon
and now adding colour a group of anonymous Latin-
American meat packing glitterati"
did they expect us to treat them with any respect
they can polish their medals and sharpen their
smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for a while
boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead
safe in the permanent gaze of a gold glass eye
with their favourite toys
they'll be good girls and boys
in the Fletcher memorial home for colonial
wasters of life and limb
is everyone in?
are you having a nice time?
now the final solution can be applied
Yeah, everyone knows it is a series of tubes.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
This WILL be duped but the editors never learn.
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Go canucks, habs, and sens!
Scientists have found living to be part of the dying process..
-Nik
What?! There is no moderation option for "Immense Sadness"?
Obscure, if not entirely off topic Pink Floyd reference...
If I had a mod point I'd give it to you.
Linux Zealots: Smarter than Mac Zealots, but still zealots.
why does everyone keep modding me down?
*scratches head*
Maybe I should see about getting my brain replaced.
*scratches head again*
Wait. What was the question again?
*scratches head yet again*
Hmm, 42. That's the answer, but what was the question?
You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
I find that avoiding to wash my underwear gives them a nice, crusted, rigid shape so they can be stacked inside each other when not in use.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
*toke* *looks around* "Whadda all you people doing in my house?" - "Ooh, look! A squirrel!".