The Truth About Goldfish Memory
A goldfish has a five-second memory or whatever. Is this true?
If a goldfish has a five-second memory, then how long is a human’s memory?
What is it? Thirty seconds? A minute? an hour? a year? Twelve years?
Can’t answer?
How can you answer such a complex and deep question with a single number?
You may have forgotten what you had for breakfast this morning, yet you remember the birth of your first child twelve years ago with remarkable clarity….
So how long is your memory? is it one day or twelve years?
Even if you could simplify memory into a single digit, could you apply that digit to the entire human race? Is it possible to say that when it comes to memory, we are all precisely the same?
Even if we could somehow measure the memory of a goldfish, are we saying that they all have the same ‘size’ memory?
Our world is complex, rich and every being in it is unique. Even goldfish…
Why do we insist on creating dull, mundane categories of knowledge facts which we then believe without question?
What was once a stunning, luminous magical, unique tropical water dragon is transformed, in our mind, into ‘just a dumb goldfish’.
We tout gathering relative knowledge ‘facts’ as intelligence and then place those with the best retention of facts on a pedestal.
Knowledge can be helpful. But we have to be careful because it is like placing stained glass over our reality. Most of what we experience is highly conditioned by what is in our minds.
If we could see, without any conditioned ideas, knowledge, words, concepts, without any ‘mind’ whatsoever,
How long is a goldfish’s memory really?
Photos: Алексей Мойса
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