Even if you manage to truly forget about the disease, there must exist a mind “somewhere in the universe” that is exactly the same as yours except without knowledge of the disease. This seems quite unlikely to me, because you having the disease has interacted causally with the rest of your mind a lot by when you decide to erase its memory. What you’d really need to do is to undo all the consequences of these interactions, which seems a lot harder to do. You’d really need to transform your mind into another one that you somehow know is present “somewhere in the multiverse” which seems also really hard to know.
The multiverse might be very big. Perhaps if you’re mad enough having the disease will bring you to a state of mind that a version with no disease has. That’s why wizards have to be mad to use magic.
Even if you manage to truly forget about the disease, there must exist a mind “somewhere in the universe” that is exactly the same as yours except without knowledge of the disease. This seems quite unlikely to me, because you having the disease has interacted causally with the rest of your mind a lot by when you decide to erase its memory. What you’d really need to do is to undo all the consequences of these interactions, which seems a lot harder to do. You’d really need to transform your mind into another one that you somehow know is present “somewhere in the multiverse” which seems also really hard to know.
The multiverse might be very big. Perhaps if you’re mad enough having the disease will bring you to a state of mind that a version with no disease has. That’s why wizards have to be mad to use magic.
Yes, here we can define magic as “ability to manipulate one’s reference class”. And special minds may be much more adapted to it.
Yes it is easy to forget something if it does not become a part of your personality. So a new bad thing is easier to forget.