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The ability to remember is an inherent capability that humans are hard-wired to utilize, both consciously as well as subconsciously. | The ability to remember is an inherent capability that humans are hard-wired to utilize, both consciously as well as subconsciously. | ||
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Knowledge, both of self and of the outside world, is key to anything we do that could be considered intelligent. Reasoning is what we do with knowledge and learning is what happens when our knowledge changes, hopefully for the better.
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Discussion of the capability in individuals
Memory actually has two critical and strongly linked functions: encoding and retrieving. While scientists and other professionals believe that there are dozens of types of memory, we often think about procedural memory — how to do things — and declarative memory — knowing facts or general knowledge about the world. We also think about differences between short-term and long-term memory. We have external memories as well! And sometimes these are other people.
And what is the role of forgetting? Is it important and, if so, why? Also is forgetting merely running out of storage space or are there actually processes whose job is un-remembering things?
The ability to remember is an inherent capability that humans are hard-wired to utilize, both consciously as well as subconsciously.
Discussion of the capability in society
Memory is necessary for survival.
How it currently works
The resources that enable memory of a society include, but are not limited to:
- The educational systems put into place
- The media/internet
- Governing force(s)
- Religion(s)
- Libraries
- Language
Examples
- secondary schools (public and private), trade schools, universities, etc
- The information that is available for citizens to absorb dictates the ways in which a single person or a society will remember an event or sequence of events.
- Depending on your beliefs, your perception of reality in the context of remembering may alter from that of another society, or even citizens within the same society.
- Libraries hold keys, so to speak, to door ways of memories. Our history, culturally as well as globally. Eventual, cultural, and factual history plays a governing role in the ability of a society to make intelligent decisions for the greater good of that society. In regards to literature, we possess the capabilities to manipulate the memories that are portrayed as fact in the books that we read.
- Human language is stored within the brain.
Potential deficiencies
Memory and the ability to remember can be easily altered or reconstructed, both by outside sources as well as within the self.
