Borges's 'Funes the Memorious' shows that remembering everything destroys the ability to think. To think is to forget differences, generalize, and form abstractions — and without abstraction there is no thought at all. Funes cannot hold the concept of 'dog,' only the specific dog at this angle, in this light, on this afternoon.
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