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.
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.