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Forgetting, not memory, moves us forward - ABC listen
Forgetting is the only safe response to the world's problems, from a geopolitical perspective, according to author and journalist David Rieff. Sometimes it’s too dangerous to remember. And forgetting is also a good thing in your personal life, say scientists. It moves us forward. The science of...
An interesting podcast from the ABC radio Future Tense program originally broadcast on 27 March 2022.
It goes into new understandings about the reasons and mechanisms around forgetting which it turns out are as necessary to our brains healthy functioning and memory “sculpting” as our ability to form memories initially.
Nothing specifically about our wonderful company but a good primer on an aspect of our functioning which is often overlooked.
The first 15 minutes is devoted to this subject but the rest of the program is interesting enough too on a lazy Boxing Day arvo.