How do we forget? Why do we need to forget? This book intends to answer to these and other
questions. It aims to demonstrate that each one is who it is due to their own memories. Thus
distinguish between the information we should keep from those we should forget is an difficult
art. In this book the author discusses about the different types of memory the main types of
forgetting (avoidance extinction and repression) their brain areas and their mechanisms. In
this sense the art of forgetting or the art of do not saturate our memory mechanisms is
something innate that benefits us anonymously keeping us from sinking amidst our own
memories. The essays that compose this book go through several aspects since individuals to
societies' memory. By the end of the book the reader will be able to understand that we forget
to be able to think to live and to survive.
