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Is there any research into how much information the brain can store?
#21813400 - 06/16/15 03:56 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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If science eventually gave us the ability to live for 500 or 1000 years, would we even be able to remember it all? I know as we exist now, the brain filters out a lot of unimportant stuff but even with that space saving feature, how many lifetimes of "significant memories" could our brain really store?
Memory has always fascinated me. I think if my life had turned out different I'd probably of ended up being doctor studying the brain and memory.
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Re: Is there any research into how much information the brain can store? [Re: Shroomslip]
#21813411 - 06/16/15 04:08 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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It would be more of a measure of how much memory can be recalled. If you can't recall it there's no way to tell if it was ever there.
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Re: Is there any research into how much information the brain can store? [Re: Shroomslip]
#21813419 - 06/16/15 04:20 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Shroomslip said: If science sayinally gave us the ability to live for 500 or 1000 years, would we even be able to remember it all? I know as we exist now, the brain filters out a lot of unimportant stuff but even with that space saving feature, how many lifetimes of "significant memories" could our brain really store?
Memory has always fascinated me. I think if my life had turned out different I'd probably of ended up being doctor studying the brain and memory.
I read something about this when i was 15 or so, saying if there was a limit, its incredibly high.
It inspired me to learn everything i could.
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Re: Is there any research into how much information the brain can store? [Re: Astral Pain]
#21813421 - 06/16/15 04:21 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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You would probably have to go under hypnosis for a total recall, but then who would really know what was real and what was just nonsense. What is real? Life is all imaginary. Fuck
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Re: Is there any research into how much information the brain can store? [Re: Shroomslip] 1
#21813462 - 06/16/15 05:21 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Shroomslip said: how many lifetimes of "significant memories" could our brain really store?
8 Gb. but it needs defraged and that will take hours.
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Re: Is there any research into how much information the brain can store? [Re: r00tuuu123]
#21813473 - 06/16/15 05:30 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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The number of potential brain states as defined by the number of combinations and permutations of neurons exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.
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Re: Is there any research into how much information the brain can store? [Re: stratocast]
#21817143 - 06/16/15 11:09 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I remember hearing through someone else that some guitar player, eyngvey i think, can only remember about 300 songs. It may be one of those things u can grow tho... einestine had a great short term memory, so they say...
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Re: Is there any research into how much information the brain can store? [Re: Shroomslip]
#21817338 - 06/17/15 12:27 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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An 83,000-Processor Supercomputer Can Only Match 1% of Your Brain
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Why is it so hard for computers to reproduce what your grey matter does as a matter of course? Volume. The human brain consists of about 200 billion nerve cells (neurons) that are linked together by trillions of connections called synapses. As the tiny electrical impulses shoot across each neuron, they have to travel through these synapses, each of which contains about 1000 different switches that route that electrical impulse. In total, one human brain could contain hundreds of trillions of these neural pathways. It's like a Choose Your Own Adventure book that stretches from here to Jupiter.
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