How exactly does the human brain enable us to perform recollections that are baffling from a technological perspective? Neuroscientists and psychologists haven't yet been able to help the techies much. Perhaps more worrying is the fact that there is little awareness of the interesting features of human acquisition and recall, even among researchers. If we are ever going to understand human memory, more people need to think about what is distinctive about it.
Charles Darwin had a vast amount of knowledge about biology and geology, but it was his reading of Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population -- with its dire image of humans struggling with each other due to overpopulation -- that finally enabled him to conceive of natural selection.
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