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221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Main Goal of Memory and Intelligence

The purpose of memory and intelligence is just, well, just think about memory for a second. This would be a kind of map, right? Map of stuff. It's like a historical map. This is what's happened before. And then i'm going to use that make predictions about the future,. corret exactly want memory because itll, it will simplify your life. Instead of coming into every situation fresh, as if you had never lived it before, you already have part of the home.

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