Eli5 the brains ability to not run out of “storage”
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Imagine taking a photo of a single tree with a very good camera. You can see all the details of that tree, the bark, the leaves, maybe bugs.
Now move back, and with same camera take a picture of 20 trees. You can’t discern as many details, but you now have more objects and they still fit into the same size of photo.
Move back more, take picture of a forest. All trees kind of look the same now, some taller, some shorter maybe. But you have so many! All fitting into same photo size.
This is approximately how brain works. The more information you put into it – the more it generalizes it, by omitting details mostly, this being able to fit it all into same set of neurons.
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