Smell is the only sense that bypasses the brain's relay station and arrives raw. This architectural quirk explains why it's the most manipulated sense in commercial environments — and why some of what we call intuition is actually olfactory computation.
We treat forgetting as a system bug. It's the opposite — forgetting is the brain's most sophisticated computation, and the key to understanding why intelligence requires strategic data loss.
We assume collaboration is natural and competition is imposed. The history of knowledge suggests the opposite. Every functioning knowledge commons is a designed system, not a moral achievement.