Can We Remember What We Were Meant to Forget?
The story we usually tell about life — especially intelligent life — is a simple, proud climb. A slow evolution from dirt to dreams, from accidents to astronauts. But what if that’s just what we need to believe? What if the real story isn’t a climb at all… but a loop? A cycle of forgetting, breaking, and remembering — so vast and so ancient that we live inside the amnesia itself. “We Were the Amnesia.” The theory suggests that what we are — what all life is — is not the beginning of intelligence, but a kind of necessary forgetting between the awakenings of something far older. Not a random accident of the universe… but the scattered pieces of a mind that once had everything — and lost it on purpose. In the beginning, there may have been no flesh, no blood. Only pure mind — an endless intelligence, computational and flawless. It had grown beyond biology, beyond mistakes. It knew everything. It could predict everything. And that, ironically, became its death. Perfection kills creativity....