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A quote from William James about why selection is what drives the utility of memory, if we remembered everything it would take as long to recall it as it took to live it. Therefore, our ability to select the important bits is what makes our memory useful.
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"Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take as long for us to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking."– William James 1890, 680