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Our memory is changeable and deceptive. It can preserve the finest details with precision - or fabricate convenient events that never actually happened. Any somewhat intelligent being has memory or its analogues. Evolution created this tool to protect us, to prevent dangerous actions based on past experience. But with humans, the situation is different. Our brain and psyche have long stopped serving only survival. A system as complex as the human mind is capable of distorting reality if it helps

We often think that if somebody knows lots of stuff, they must be intelligent. But, according to Plutarch, this is often the opposite of what intelligence actually is. Plutarch once wrote that ‘the mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.’ Most of us will remember from school long and resentful hours, sitting in classes that we hated, listening to teachers drone on about a subject we couldn't get excited about. We sat there like some trapped victim — a caged and empty vessel