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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I’m sure there is a limit, but it will be very difficult to figure out.
I think the bigger limitation is time. It takes so long to turn a basic skill into an obvious knowledge. Take driving or writing for example. They’re common skills, but require many hours. Now imagine that for everything else.
I’m sure there is a limit, but it will be very difficult to figure out.
I think the bigger limitation is time. It takes so long to turn a basic skill into an obvious knowledge. Take driving or writing for example. They’re common skills, but require many hours. Now imagine that for everything else.
I’m sure there is a limit, but it will be very difficult to figure out.
I think the bigger limitation is time. It takes so long to turn a basic skill into an obvious knowledge. Take driving or writing for example. They’re common skills, but require many hours. Now imagine that for everything else.
No.
You forget things. Your memories get distributed and compressed. Knowledge grows stale and less detailed over time.
Your brain will never “fill” cause things you haven’t done or interfaced with in a while will be less granular, we often call this “getting rusty”.
Think of it as older less used information gets lower and lower in resolution, taking up much less space than the very high res newer or more often used stuff.
But it never really goes away totally (unless of course you have actual degenerative brain conditions of course) which is why to your dying day you have have these hazy sepia toned memories of childhood.
No.
You forget things. Your memories get distributed and compressed. Knowledge grows stale and less detailed over time.
Your brain will never “fill” cause things you haven’t done or interfaced with in a while will be less granular, we often call this “getting rusty”.
Think of it as older less used information gets lower and lower in resolution, taking up much less space than the very high res newer or more often used stuff.
But it never really goes away totally (unless of course you have actual degenerative brain conditions of course) which is why to your dying day you have have these hazy sepia toned memories of childhood.
No.
You forget things. Your memories get distributed and compressed. Knowledge grows stale and less detailed over time.
Your brain will never “fill” cause things you haven’t done or interfaced with in a while will be less granular, we often call this “getting rusty”.
Think of it as older less used information gets lower and lower in resolution, taking up much less space than the very high res newer or more often used stuff.
But it never really goes away totally (unless of course you have actual degenerative brain conditions of course) which is why to your dying day you have have these hazy sepia toned memories of childhood.
Did you watch the Doctor Who episode, The Woman Who Lived? This character became effectively immortal during the Danelaw period of England. As the years decades and centuries passed, her brain reached its limit of memory storage and had to write backup journals of her life to the point that she had bookshelves of journals of just her memories.
Did you watch the Doctor Who episode, The Woman Who Lived? This character became effectively immortal during the Danelaw period of England. As the years decades and centuries passed, her brain reached its limit of memory storage and had to write backup journals of her life to the point that she had bookshelves of journals of just her memories.
Our brains tend to act like the recycle bin on our computers.
If you don’t know what the recycle bin does for your computer it just allows for the data that you put into it to be flagged to be overwritten.
Our brains do this constantly, the saying “use it or lose it” is a good saying for our brains as well as our muscles.
Say if Einstein just studied constantly, he would never hit a “limit”. His brain would just replace old information with new information that’s more present. It’s still possible to remember that old information but it will be in fragments of what it originally was.
Like our childhood memories, we can imagine a few but we can barely recall every single day of every single minute.
Our brains tend to act like the recycle bin on our computers.
If you don’t know what the recycle bin does for your computer it just allows for the data that you put into it to be flagged to be overwritten.
Our brains do this constantly, the saying “use it or lose it” is a good saying for our brains as well as our muscles.
Say if Einstein just studied constantly, he would never hit a “limit”. His brain would just replace old information with new information that’s more present. It’s still possible to remember that old information but it will be in fragments of what it originally was.
Like our childhood memories, we can imagine a few but we can barely recall every single day of every single minute.
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