Marieta Murg’s Reviews > The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic > Status Update

To be human as we know it today is to experience the cycles of life, to experience great loss and pain—not just the pain of tragedy but the pain of inevitability. The essential joy of life is embedded in our mortality, and in our forgetting.

fuzziness is not a severe limitation but a highly advanced feature. As a matter of engineering, the brain does not have any physical limitations in the amount of information it can hold. It is designed specifically to forget most of the details it comes across, so that it may allow us to form general impressions, and from there useful judgments. Forgetting is not a failure at all, but an active metabolic process