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Originally Posted by parallaxicality
...Being comfortable with nothing is called inertia. Once we have thought about all there is to think about, there will be no more need for thought. Existence without thought it is no different from being dead.
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That is staved off by our wonderful capacity as individuals as well as societies to forget things, especially as we get older. We also tend to remember or rediscover forgotten ideas but with built-in variations.