El olvido en la ciencia y el arte

This essay addresses the relationship between forgetting and the construction of knowledge from the perspective of scientific and artistic practice. Understanding that language and the processes of science are a human construction, therefore their systematizations and objectivities are framed in the biological, psychological and social processes inherent to individuals. Reflecting on the processes of forgetting in science places us in techno-scientific perspectives on its scope and meta-social purposes. Forgetting is part of everyday life, and studies reveal that it is a key piece in our way of learning. Curiously, this fact conflicts with the methods and systems that humanity has developed to generate knowledge. From the above mentioned, we seek to explore how psychological, social and epistemic methodological processes, in which forgetting is tacitly present, could be understood as necessary perspectives to reconfigure the society we are building. Processing the scope and objectives of knowledge implies recognizing forgetting as something more than a negative factor in the processes of research and the construction of scientific knowledge; a sense of value that, for example, art has addressed in its praxis. In a broader dimension, forgetting becomes a mechanism that reformulates our societies. As humanity, could we forget everything we have learned in order to start anew? In this vision, forgetting ceases to be an obstacle and becomes a transformative element capable of generating new societies and structures of thought.