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Scott Small: The Point of Forgetting

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Sleep in Order to Smarter Forget

The point of the book is that we need our normal memory, not our pathological memory that occurs in disease. The idea that we sleep in order to smart forget, that term was introduced by francis crick. We know why we drink and eat but a third of our lives were spent in a vulnerable position, in sleep, dormant. A great mystery that hasn't been completely solved.

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