Remembering

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.

Discussion of the capability in individuals

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.
• Human language is quantifiably stored in 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.