I was helping my daughter with her Chemistry revision (GCSE) yesterday afternoon and was starkly reminded that there are some things that you just have to know, and I'd forgotten them. I suppose at least it's much easier to acquire facts these days than in my time, a quick Google sorts most questions out. Funny thing knowledge, it's sometimes slippery and sometimes rock-solid and it's unclear why. If our brains are anything like the neural networks that we implement AI software with these days then we should be able to remember and recall every single thing we've ever learned but clearly that's not the case (well at least it's not in my case!)
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