I Remember, Therefore I Am: The Spectrum of Forgetting

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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

The Story

Forgetting-it’s a part of our everyday life, albeit an annoying one. We forget both the trivial and the important — everything from the algebra we learned in high school to the name of our latest acquaintance to where we put our car keys. Sometimes…