Message from @Noxar
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You caught me
@Logical-Scholar you mean a personal ability, or an ability I could use on other people
No if you had an ability to remember stuff as one choice or ability to forget stuff by choice
Say for one if you want to learn something you can read the book once and remember
Or if you have depression delete all your bad memories
@Logical-Scholar well we naturally forget things, our brain deletes most of our pre-teen memories by the time we mature, because they are worthless
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I’d choose to remember memories. Why delete anything? Even the bad memories are important, they define us as people, they are an important experience that teaches us not to repeat the same mistakes, etc
@Logical-Scholar that's a tough question, deleting memories can remove anxiety from public speeches for example, phobias etc.
Remembering anything is also very useful, but there's a limit to what we can remember, plus remembering everything you hear from some person for example.. fuck that
I'd go for deleting ability
@LaCraig Will do!
@Noxar why choose to delete some memory that might not be comfortable for you instead of learning to deal with it?
@Noxar There is actually a fuck ton of stuff a human being can remember
@sasha because you would delete the ones you can't deal with no matter what.
Some trauma, PTSD, etc.
Try count all English vocabularies for example
I know them all in my head
well most
And a good share of Italian once
If you have ability to learn a language then learning an individual subject is nothing
Yes we can remember a lot, but there's a limit, our brain isn't infinite in size and it's pretty well documented our brain automatically discards useless memories, because, well, they are useless - garbage - takes up space @Logical-Scholar
It would be great to have both abilities
delete what you don't want and remember what you want
@Noxar I guess it is good for people with mental problems, traumas, as you’ve stated. But other than that, I don’t see any use to deleting memories to those who don’t suffer any of those
But the delete memory ability is hard to use responsibly
like people will use it like weed, escape problems
it's well documented Weed makes you forget easily
True
hence people use it to escape life
We technically already have a way to remember everything - for a long time - books and today High capacity hard drives which we can take with us anywhere, hell even SSDs on our phones,
Flash drives @Logical-Scholar
Also, isn't this essentially transhumanism, I thought you were against it @Logical-Scholar
I am against changing our DNA for the unnatural yeah, I was thinking more of a fantasy scenario because it makes for speculations on how you want to act
I could ask it more realistically, like do you want to either smoke weed or nonstop memrise
Assuming I can change the world to be a better place - memories
In case that's not possible, not weed but a bullet to the head tbh
Yes, because that' physically impossible
Urbanism naturally breeds cosmopolitan, left wing thoughts
@Gaguchi yes but only insofar as I believe in democracy
Which is only when it is convenient
@Noxar Hmm in Croatia the cities of Zadar, Split and Dubrovnik are more Fascist than basically the entire rurality of Istria
It can literally never switch like that, its impossible
Big city life creates leftism
Ideally city dwellers would not have the right to vote at all