The tendency for a network of participants to forget, or repress, points made in earlier time frames.
Participants become addicted to novelty and devalue concepts articulated earlier.
The ability to build a complex conceptual structure over time is therefore constantly undermined. Such amnesia is in effect a process of conceptual resource destruction. Conceptual fade out The tendency for a complex conceptual structure to fade at the edges, so that the scope of any emerging conceptual structure is constantly being eroded by limitations of conceptual span, whether for an individual or for the network of participants collectively. Just as there is a need for screen refreshment, so there is a need for systematic concept refreshment. The tendency for concepts to be buried in a mass of text, whether explanatory, anecdotal or otherwise.