It will be easy for you to forget you ever read this note.  What is not easy is to know why it is easy.  According to cognitive science, it is a simple matter that Notes only make it into your short-term memory but do not make it into your long-term memory.  Is it really that simple?  Why do certain cognitive events make it into your long-term memory?  What is the critical threshold between long-term and short-term memory?  Is there somehow a “middle-term” memory?  How much does memory have to do with degree-of-interest?  If you were very deeply interested in the cognitive facts of your memory, would you not tend to remember this note in long-term memory, though not word-for-word of course?  Most readers do not want to understand how their cognitive faculties work.  Do you know why they are like that?  Would you really, deeply want to know? Is that not part of your personal problem about all this?  Well, to be sure, there is always the next note for your fleeting, superficial curiosity.

Having arrived here at this note through curiosity or superficial interest, you are in the existential status of what Heidegger calls the They-self, the inauthentic self that operates as a mere member of society or a group.  Your inability to give serious depth of attention and thought to anything thus comes out in how you do notes.  Does this perchance alarm you a little?  Even if it does, the next note is fast upon you.

The self you become to read this note is not the Real Self of cosmic understanding.  When you are all done reading this note, the main thing you fail to understand is that you never really got started reading this note for real.  The even deeper tragedy of this condition of your consciousness is that you will not be able to see it either.  So we may as well stop here for today.  In fact, you should stop coming to Notes because you know you just don’t get it.

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