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What is the purpose of memory?


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Without subjective reality, along with perception of it originally, played back as memory; where would we be in everday life?

Extinct. :)

 

For example: The day after birth, no one has a clue who/what an infant is or how to care for them. But it's a moot point anyway, because the adults don't remember what foods are safe to eat, where the water supply is, how to make shelter, etc. :)

 

moo

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Supposing everything would get genetical eventually? Look at the microbes, and just note that every thing they do are genetically controlled, and not by memory.

 

The genomes would get gigantically enormous...

Interesting, but wouldn't that pretty much eliminate the thought process as we know it altogether?

 

Hmmm... I guess the absence of memory would anyway though. :warped:

 

moo

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'Parrently, we evolved brains because our genetic 'memory' is too limiting. And then, a few years ago, we invented writing, because our brains are too limiting! So the eventual evolution of our genetic 'memory' leads us straight to the library door. And this is being superceded now, as we speak, by the internets...

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It's a conspiracy, I tell you. Storing all info in genes would have life so damn simple. Would'nt have to remember tons of crap.

 

There do exist higher forms of memory keeping, as it seems. The question of what info remains where is determined by how much we use it. That's cool, analysing this, just doing it for fun.

 

How to secrete proteins, vital for life processes: gene bank

2 + 2, how to compute square roots, dance steps: memory

Value of pi till 10,000 digits, Names of all presidents of all countries ever: internet

 

Cool.:D Cool.

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