The Importance of Memory The Importance of Memory To understand how we learn, it is first necessary to understand something about how we think.
Intelligence is fundamentally a memory-based process.
Learning means the dynamic modification of memory. A system can be said to have learned if it is different at time t1 from the way it was at time t0. Under this kind of definition, even forgetting is a kind of learning. Human memories are in a constant state of dynamic modification. Learning depends upon inputs.