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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by thaumasiotes on Monday December 30, 2013 @03:59PM (#6986900)
People already do this. The traditional forms of memory storage are known as "diaries" and "photo albums". It is universally acknowledged that without their aid, your brain will overload and lose the information you wanted to preserve.

But despite all this, no one thinks of human life as lasting "forever", or anywhere close to it.

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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by electromagnetic on Monday December 30, 2013 @05:24PM (#6987459)
The irony is the only things I can't forget are the ones written down or photographed. I never need to look at them, but if they weren't written down it would have vanished.

It's like I have a form of telepathic cloud storage. So long as the physical information exists, I can always remember it and will never look. So some is potentially in a Schrödinger's cat state as I never know if my wife actually threw the note out or not as I'll never need to go look for it.

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