I was always fascinated by the feats of memory that illiterate people (and
small, pre-literate people) could achieve. Remember the whole bible and not
make a (blasphemous) mistake is a good example. Once we learn to read, we lose
it because we no longer need it.
Andrew Fildes
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www.soultheft.com
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The TLR Compendium
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On 13/12/2013, at 7:34 AM, Moose wrote:
> The investigator's theory was that it might be evolutionary, that there was a
> long time in our development when
> forgetting what had been going on where one had been, in favor of giving full
> attention to where one was, was as
> survival factor. In any case, the results were clear, even quite young people
> forgot things when they went in the next room.
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