Having a forceful memory is good, however is remembering everything useful? Powerful memories provide advantage to the people. On the other hand, remembering every minute of the life is an anormal and baleful thing. Remembering every single detail prevents people from thinking because generalizations cannot be made. In addition to that, in order to use the knowledge we need to combine the similarities and neglect the little differences. This accelerates our thinking process. Besides, Plato’s “Theory of forms/ideas” talks about the protoype issue and this theory says that everything in this world is the copy of the real. However, we take them as the same by ignoring some differences and generalize. This helps us to think. In the short story “Funes, the Memorious” written by Jorge Luis Borges, Funes could remember everything and this was a liability for him because “in Funes’ overloaded world there was nothing but details…” (Funes, the Memorious, Jorge Luis Borges).......
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