Maintaining memorized information only as long as it is required to achieve a real goal is a feature, not a bug. That almost everything taught in school is forgotten shortly after is an indictment of a system determined to embed largely useless info, not of students' character.
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FWIW: Sufficiently bugged memory a feature. As someone who would probably get an A on 98% of all previous exams if re-administered today: if you were offering to double my RAM (or make it amenable to more types of info) for $5 million, I'd have financing lined up by tomorrow.
I would 100% prefer to have a brain with an unlimited capacity for *relevant* recall, but assuming a limited ability to activate nuanced pathways to factual info, that which proves most consistently relevant is fine, particularly *now* that we all carry web-enabled phones.
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I think there's a ton of neurodiversity when it comes to this and it probably does a lot to drive interests. I'm extremely forgetful of "irrelevant information" so I was naturally drawn to math, where it was more important to understand a proof or derivation than memorize facts.
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If you forget the fact you can "recall" it by reasoning about the derivation, and the hard stuff is just wrapping your head around abstract concepts
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