{"id":744,"date":"2007-08-02T23:26:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T07:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/a-beautiful-mind\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T23:26:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T07:26:14","slug":"a-beautiful-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/a-beautiful-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beautiful Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Linda told me about this story. But it still amazes me to have seen a recording of it.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YYfIHdUNImo\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This is further proof of a theory I read about that stated human brain actually never ever forgets anything. But instead, when we &#8220;forget&#8221; something, our brain simply loses that connection to access that specific part of the memory that allows the brain to retrieve it to the consciousness. The brain also helps to keep &#8220;normal&#8221; individuals sane by purposely blocking out most of the information that it deems unimportant so our consciousness can actually stay focused on tasks that matter (i.e. running away from man-eating tigers). A recent study on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alzheimer's_disease\" target=\"_blank\">Alzheimer&#8217;s disease<\/a> has also shed some light to similar effect (heard it on NPR).<\/p>\n<p>Note: The amazing guy profiled in the story is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Wiltshire\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Wiltshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Linda told me about this story. But it still amazes me to have seen a recording of it. This is further proof of a theory I read about that stated human brain actually never ever forgets anything. But instead, when we &#8220;forget&#8221; something, our brain simply loses that connection to access that specific &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/a-beautiful-mind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Beautiful Mind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-c0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}