My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.