New Controlling Purpose
Baxter shows how memory is fleeting despite how it is stored. His goal is to explain how a funtioning mind loses its ability to harness permanency despite living in an information age.
Old Controlling Purpose
In Baxter's plight to give emphasis to the strengths of memory through computer and human usage, he also points out that memory can be destroyed over time. Be it shame in forgetting or or memory loss over time the effects are unretrievable.
Revised Introduction
Charles Baxter’s “Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age” is a piece of literature that questions the importance of forgetting and its shameful affects on one’s mind. In creating this piece he draws attention to experiences, information, and mental competencies as guidelines to gauge the inchoate make up of our brain. By giving us a correlation between the brain being similar to a computer’s hard drive and how time affects our brains’ usage, Baxter shows how memory is fleeting despite how it is stored. His goal is to explain how a functioning mind loses its ability to harness permanency despite living in an information age.
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