And thus one will not learn, I agree. But if one wants to learn then surely retention is the best method. Otherwise, yet another clean slate simply leads to one going round the merry-go-round until blind luck puts you in a body able and willing to dedicate to an alternative.
Ok, we will run with the notion of one who
wants to learn. Are you saying that one is required to know minute details of their previous lives (eg. Skill sets etc) or are you saying its sufficient to perceive the general mechanism of one self moving through different bodies?
Past memories would help in the same way that having no memories do not... it removes you from the merry-go-round of ignorance and would show you, if it were true, that there is more than simply the single life to enjoy.
That is debatable. Given that desire is the culprit, knowledge is not necessarily the panacea for higher action. For instance most cigerette smokers are not liberated from their vice by the mere knowledge it causes cancer.
If we lack the memories then we simply go round and round.
If we lack the right desire, we go round and round. You are assuming that if we get "the facts", then automatically our desire will follow suit. Human nature clearly illustrates otherwise.
We only learn what we do in life because we think it is our only one.
Your statement does not make any sense ... but as far as learning goes, its part nature, part nurture .... leading horses to water and all that.
Lack of memory enslaves us in repeating with only luck giving us a way out. If we had memories we would at least understand the game we are playing.
Once again, its desire, not memory, that does the whole enslaving thing.
To say that luck is the only tenable alternative, is to assume that any other solution is prohibited from being external to one's self. Given that the problem is essentially that of being self absorbed for all the wrong reasons, its not clear why one would unnecessarily raise the bar like that.
Even in the matrix someone else had to offer the red or the blue pill.
At the moment we can't even know we are playing a game.
If one's desire is to sincerely play it in all its repetitive glory, that option must be not only available, but also dominant and commonplace.
Its kind of difficult to be an effective soccer hooligan in the off season or in the USA.
What you see as a failure to perceive is more accurately the failure to accept one particular viewpoint as being the truth. Without those memories there is nothing to support that viewpoint other than confidence and personality, and arrogance of those who have accepted that viewpoint that it is the correct one.
Lol
You kind of jumped the gun in establishing your position as meritous ..... much less a challenge of it as instaneously arrogant and whatnot ...
And that is but one viewpoint.
I thought it was relatively noncontroversial. But anyway, if you don't believe this world is built on greater principles of suffering, engineer experiments to see how much pleasure your little toe can possibly bring you and then see how much suffering it can possibly bring you.
