why we never forget

i have noticed that by using rational one can come up with very accurate explanations even if you do not have any knowledge of experiements done. one of the most notable predictions i have made through rational is the one that states that we do not forget anything.

it was awkward at first but then i came about some evidence that suggested the reasoning was correct.

( read everything through before answering.)

so lets start with the simple premise.

  1. every cause has an effect.

so it was evident to me that people remember somethings and others we dont. there must be a reason for that.

now it was my realization that “important” things where remembered. Important is determined by conditioning and thus dependant on pain and pleasure.

so what you remember is dependant on your conditioning.

contradiction:

however this would imply that you cant remember something if it is not associated to either pain or pleasure which is not correct.

so i came to this conclusion, to focus on a thought you must have a cause and that is pain and pleasure so what you focus your attention on is determined by conditioning.

so your consciousness (you)= your conditioning.

however something else determines what we subconsciously remember. (knowledge we are not aware of).

since it cannot be conditioning, because we are not born conditioned, my only other alternative is body structure. but this would mean that the brain cannot be selective in anyway of what associations it stores, since this is the case it cannot be selective of what it “forgets” so my conclusion was:

we subconciously “remember” everything. although associate everything would be better since remember implies consciousness.

this means associations are not forgetten they are just supressed. they are supressed due to conditioning.

Palimpsest.

dont you think it would be illogical to try an make people who have no idea who i am of something? if i would be seeking external apreciation i would be trying to get rich not think. at least thats true for me.

people tend to project their own anxieties into others so that could be the case for you.

No, not really, I was just alluding to the fact that information, remembrance if you like, is lost - or garbled - if overwritten a sufficient number of times.

well psychologst call this interference. so that would be garbled to them.

I think with the right prompt we can remember everything. Even things we didn’t realize we were noticing at the time. But what controls the prompts, I have no idea.

IMH/SO, I don’t personally believe that we never forget, but I can’t recall why.

IMH/SO, The means and method for human memory is far more complex involving parity, error correction, chemical corruption and so on. But I can tell you that medical interference is by far the greater cause of forgetting (if I remember correctly).