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Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity

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Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity
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“Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”

“Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original… it is a continuing act of creation,” researcher Rosalind Cartwright reminded us in her fascinating treatise on the science of dreams. “The biggest lie of human memory is that it feels true,” Jonah Lehrer wrote shortly before being engulfed in a maelstrom of escalating accusations of autoplagiarism and ou

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