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into more complex, more useful ways. The more we learn, the more sophisticated our information stores might become.
Small bears are not that dangerous and are tasty to eat might be a useful distinction from large black bears are dangerous when with their young; and giant brown bears are always angry and should be avoided at all costs.
Rather than just avoiding all bears, our understanding could develop to the point where we only avoid particular bears at particular times, when advantageous to do so.
The older we get, the more experiences we amass and the amount of information that we have stored continues to grow to an enormous degree.
How do we determine which information is really important and which information is worthless?
If it’s true that human beings are largely motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain, then any information that is associated with pleasure might be valuable information.
Similarly, any information associated with avoiding pain might also be valuable information.
Any information associated with neither pleasurable nor painful experiences might be of very little interest and therefore much less valuable information.
As we saw in the last chapter, emotion then, can be an incredibly useful guide as to what gathered experiences are quickly worth remembering. And in all likelihood, probably the more intense the emotion, the quicker we would want to learn and the more quickly we would want to recall that information in the future.
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