Again, I think you're taking the word 'forget' too literally in this context.IncarnateX wrote: It hardly makes sense to say that it is oh so good for our creativity if we forget at the level of procedural knowledge too because that equals never having learned anything in the first place.
Riding a bike is a good, simple example of procedural knowledge...I could ride a bike very well as a teenager / young adult, but after the brief few learning weeks, I NEVER consciously thought about what I was doing...I just did it...often in an unexpected and slightly dangerous way on certain days! :0)
'Forgetting' in the context of composing simply means that certain things, (more for some people and less for others) are so ingrained that they rarely think about them consciously.