is there a limit to how much you can learn? Is there a point where a human neural brain won’t be able to store any more new information?

Question

Obviously currently this doesn’t happen, but assuming there would be some techniques or devices for learning more – would there be a limit to how much our neural networks in the brain can store?

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Answer 1

We need to define knowledge for this…

I would say there are no hard limits, BUT lexical knowledge as in raw text there is a limit what you can actually retain and recite. You need to actively use and refresh the information, because our brain tends to “discard” knowledge we don’t use, or at least not retaining it with 100% accuracy

The limit in this case would be the time you can spend rereading the text or using a the text like an actor does with a script.

This also differs from person to person and it is a talent to memorize things

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As for other form of knowledge like experiences or “muscle memory” It would be almost a the same, but they are stored differently and at different part of the brain. Like learning to use a bicyclem you may not use that skill for a decade, but you can pick it up really fast again, without any maintenance on that skill

So retaining skills is to a certain level is much more different, a poem you learnt in high school could be totally forgotten.

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Yes there is a limit, but with the limit how fast we can actually input information, we can’t really reach that limit, before the brains “self optimization” kicks in.

But if we could write the brain directly, somehow (thinking of matrix) than we could reach that limit if there is any!

We need to know how the brain actually works, but we don’t… not right now