The higher your IQ, the more forgetful you are?

[August_West]

@Senegoid

Arthur Conan Doyle expressed the idea (through Sherlock Holmes) that there was only a finite number of facts one could learn. Once one’s knowledge reaches this maximum capacity, each new fact learned must result in an prior known fact being forgotten.

If there is any truth to this, then the most fact-encumbered brains must also be the most fact-porous as they continually drop facts to accommodate new ones.

** Homer**: But every time I learn something new, it pushes out something old. Remember that time I took a home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?

Marge: That’s because you were drunk!

[Doctor_Jackson]

@tapu

I must be fucking brilliant.

Huh, I didn’t feel a thing…