Okay, so I was wondering.
What evolutionary advantage is there in forgetting?
Some people have brains which are capable to remember almost anything, but most people have bad memory.
This makes no sense, because we have a very large brains, yet a simple computer can remember much more than we can.
I usually write things down because remembering is very hard.
Like, I could think of maybe 20 things about farming, but when I start thinking and writing down for months, I come up with over 200.
But if I dont write down, I would very much remain on 20 because any new thing I learn means I likely forget some other thing.
So it seems that writing down things is important to have a body of knowledge to work with.
But why dont our brains do this?
Our brains think very slowly, much slower than AI, for example.
But they also cant think of more than 4 things at same time, in most cases.
Most people, when they weigh pros and cons, they have to take pen and paper because their brains cant work with many points at once.