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Among the many unexamined assumptions that govern contemporary attitudes toward the past, perhaps none is so firmly entrenched as the conviction that remembering is an unqualified good and forgetting a regrettable deficiency. We memorialise, we archive, we digitise; we treat the preservation of information as a moral…

• What widely held belief does the writer challenge at the outset of the passage?
• What does the example of hyperthymesia patients illustrate?