Can you forget how to cry? How to laugh? Can you forget how to make hand-eye coordination (catching or touching anything)? Can you forget how to eat, sleep, dream?
Okay, leave these innate properties, Can you even (which you have been taught) forget your name, parent name, alphabets, swimming (if you know already), run, read, write, slap, or anything you are practicing on daily basis?
Okay, last one, my favorite (because I do research in Computer Vision), Can you forget identifying color, people, objects, food and potty?
You might be wondering, why all these questions are important at all!
These questions reveal one of the most important property of humankind. That is, 'ability to learn,' and 'inability to unlearn.' It reveals, why learning is a hard thing but unlearning is even harder. It reveals, why falling in love is maybe easy, but to unlove someone is one of the hardest part of our life, and most importantly, why many of us don't follow general logics, but believe in stupid and rubbish orthodox ideas like God and Ghost, which we had been believing since long.
Neural networks and deep nets of our brain have been trained for millions of years. Our brain nets are trained to know how to cry or laugh, when to cry or laugh. Some scientists believe we know swimming since birth because we are evolved from fish. Once we learn walking, talking, eating, alphabets, and many more things, due to practicing on daily basis for years, these activities makes hard/permanent memory lines in our neural nets in brain.
Accuracy in our hand-eye coordination is one of the best in living beings. It makes us one of the deadliest killer, and one of the most ferocious organism on the earth. Do you know it happens due to learning of our neural nets all over the evolution!
Our visual cortex is an amazing deep neural net which learns how to identifying various colors and objects.
Unlearning any of the things, which I asked above is like realignment of some of the nets in our brain. Sometime it is quite hard and even torturous for us to unlearn things. Learning and unlearning things make physical changes in our brain. Your brain's orientation is somewhat different after reading this post like never before. You are a different person from now like never before.
We are taught for years and there are permanent memory lines in brain about notion of God, Ghost, and many more stupid beliefs. It is really-really hard, painful and sometimes impossible to retrain our nets and unlearn false and hollow notions.
My love, you are nothing more than a permanent memory line in my mind (love in a nutshell). đŸ˜‰
Enjoy learning and unlearning.
~Raghav
29 Dec 2017