Memory consolidation, is the pinnacle of operational priorities

Memory consolidation, is the pinnacle of operational priorities. 

All other activities are subsumed by it. We eat, sleep, regulate emotions of both attraction and aversion, build muscle, and accumulate social and material capital of other kinds, simply in its service.

This is not to say we choose this religiously. Evolutionary biology presents an inversion of naive control. We exist only because no other optimisation target mattered. Civilisation progress from second to second, only because it remembers the past.

This gives us an insight into how societies develop, based on the narratives that they provide individuals, about the use of memory. In some societies, the future of this world is not something to aspire to, as it is forecasted to decay - hence memory consolidation in such subjects focuses on other-worldly objectives. 

- Thoughts before getting out of bed today. I remain a student of students.