forgetting...

[John Larkin]

\"Misremembering and forgetting allow for the cognitive flexibility
required by imagination.\"

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/memory-creativity/

See, forgetting where you left your keys is actually good.

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 1:36:14 AM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:

\"Misremembering and forgetting allow for the cognitive flexibility
required by imagination.\"

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/memory-creativity/

See, forgetting where you left your keys is actually good.

And finding yourself locked out of your house is even better.

People do like constructing paradoxes. It has never struck me as a useful exercise. There are more useful ways of attracting attention.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[bitrex]

On 5/10/2023 11:34 AM, John Larkin wrote:

\"Misremembering and forgetting allow for the cognitive flexibility
required by imagination.\"

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/memory-creativity/

See, forgetting where you left your keys is actually good.

There\'s a technological solution for that!

<https://www.nutfind.com/> (no financial affiliation)

Works over a decently large range. If keys or wallet happen to be buried
in the clothes hamper such that you can\'t hear the alerter the app\'s
display will help you play the \"getting warmer\"-game, also.

Also can be set up such that if you walk out the door with only one or
two of the Three (phone, wallet, keys) one of the other ones will bark
at you.

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 10 May 2023 11:45:54 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 5/10/2023 11:34 AM, John Larkin wrote:
\"Misremembering and forgetting allow for the cognitive flexibility
required by imagination.\"

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/memory-creativity/

See, forgetting where you left your keys is actually good.


There\'s a technological solution for that!

https://www.nutfind.com/> (no financial affiliation)

Works over a decently large range. If keys or wallet happen to be buried
in the clothes hamper such that you can\'t hear the alerter the app\'s
display will help you play the \"getting warmer\"-game, also.

Also can be set up such that if you walk out the door with only one or
two of the Three (phone, wallet, keys) one of the other ones will bark
at you.

I suppose some day we\'ll never lose anything. Meanwhile I keep a key
stashed outdoors. No battery required.

 

[Cursitor Doom]

On Wed, 10 May 2023 08:43:27 -0700 (PDT), Anthony William Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

On Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 1:36:14?AM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:
\"Misremembering and forgetting allow for the cognitive flexibility
required by imagination.\"

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/memory-creativity/

See, forgetting where you left your keys is actually good.

And finding yourself locked out of your house is even better.

People do like constructing paradoxes. It has never struck me as a useful exercise. There are more useful ways of attracting attention.

It\'s about time you adopted some of them, then.

 

[Don Y]

On 5/10/2023 8:45 AM, bitrex wrote:

There\'s a technological solution for that!

https://www.nutfind.com/> (no financial affiliation)

Works over a decently large range. If keys or wallet happen to be buried in the
clothes hamper such that you can\'t hear the alerter the app\'s display will help
you play the \"getting warmer\"-game, also.

Also can be set up such that if you walk out the door with only one or two of
the Three (phone, wallet, keys) one of the other ones will bark at you.

I suspect -- as with many things -- it will be too easy for folks to become
reliant on such \"mechanisms\" to the detriment of their normal abilities.

I\'ve noticed that I typically \"forget\" things when I\'m on autopilot...
set body on a course of action (head out to garage to find a cable,
set off down the road to a store, etc.) and then set *mind* to some more
interesting activity. Later, forget where you were headed -- or why!

Pause. Look at surroundings. Question why you are likely in this spot.
Think back over what you were last doing. Click! Missing piece falls
into place.

If it\'s too easy to NOT coerce your mind to perform, then you opt for
those easier solutions. E.g., I routinely (like, one a day!) drive
off and wonder if I\'ve closed the garage door behind me. I get to the
end of the block and make a WIDE U-turn so I can look back and see my
garage... then continue the U-turn into a full 360 and resume my trip.
To date, I\'ve never \"discovered\" that I\'d left it open!

[I *do* plan on automating this, though... as it is far too common
an occurrence to be making these silly loops in the street!]

When I was traveling frequently, I would iron my dress shirts/slacks
in the ~30 minutes between getting ready to leave and the cab showing up.
Invariably, we\'d get a block down the street and I\'d ask the cabbie to
turn around so I could double-check that I\'d unplugged the iron
(likely not fun to come home to a charred home a week later!)

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 4:46:04 AM UTC+10, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Wed, 10 May 2023 08:43:27 -0700 (PDT), Anthony William Sloman
bill....@ieee.org> wrote:
On Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 1:36:14?AM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:
\"Misremembering and forgetting allow for the cognitive flexibility
required by imagination.\"

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/memory-creativity/

See, forgetting where you left your keys is actually good.

And finding yourself locked out of your house is even better.

People do like constructing paradoxes. It has never struck me as a useful exercise. There are more useful ways of attracting attention.
It\'s about time you adopted some of them, then.

The only stuff that attracts your attention is fatuous nonsense, and you treat serious discussion as a distraction from your preferred forms of entertainment.

You are like a Barbara Cartland fan complaining that Jane Austen didn\'t write the sort of book they like to read.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney