Curating our memories includes forgetting
- sciart0
- Mar 22
- 1 min read
Excerpt: "For decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have propagated a dismal picture of the human mind. We are told that far from being rational, most of what we think and do is propelled by irrational emotional and instinctive forces. Unconscious processes rule the roost with the conscious mind confabulating explanations for what we do after the event. Even the self is widely said to be an illusion.
There is a convincing scientific rationale for why the human self-image is so inaccurate. Evolution has no interest in truth or objectivity. Natural selection favors processes that help us to survive.
Beliefs have no need to be truthful, only useful."