According to the two researchers from the University of Toronto in Canada, memory isn’t intended to help transmit the most accurate information, but rather the most useful information that can help us make smart decisions in the future. Information generated from the process of forgetting as well as the process of creating memories.

Researchers found evidence of the deliberate weakening of the synaptic connections between neurons that help to encode memories, as well as signs that new neurons overwriting existing memories, to make them harder to access.

Forgetting helps us adjust to new situations by letting go of memories we don’t need. It also allows us to generalise past events to help us make decisions about new ones, a concept known in artificial intelligence as regularisation. Multiple or even conflicting memories makes it harder for you to make an informed decision. (1)

The only way to think is not to think.

Because thinking engulfs you in a set of beliefs and dogmas which make it almost impossible to select an action. Real life requires the ability to focus on what you want rather than analyze everything and take rational decisions. Because the mind will never be able to analyze everything or invent a set of logical axioms which will prove useful for every possible situation.

Acting is about filtering information, destroying what you have in your mind based on what you want to have in your mind, forgetting things, letting go of information which may be conflicting to what your heart dictates that you need to do.

We are not part of God because we are infinite.

We are part of God as finite beings, trying to live in a finite universe.

We should not be able to decide. And yet we do.

And though our incompleteness, we drive the cosmos.

Because deep inside we have already made up our mind.

Read the article carefully again.

You have 10 minutes to decide if you like it or not.

Go!

(Do you really care?)