To how much information your brain can hold?. Is there a limit to how many memories it can hold, etc.
Is there a limit?
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I believe the only limit is death in a normal functioning human brain. Although most of what we intake seems to be old rehashed things we've learned before.
Never /thread your own post.madbird-valiant said:
Also your brain has no proven limit however it will delete information that is no longer relevant or that it didn't have enough time to comprehend. This is commonly called, forgeting stuff.
All of this, especially the first part. It just seems rather snobbish if you claim your own post as teh bestest !!111.hypothetical fact said:
I've always liked the Sherlock Holmes approach - your brain is like an attic; you have to clean out the junk and then avoid remembering new junk, to keep your attic at its uncluttered and useful best! =) In practice, this is nearly impossible I find, as you can hardly ever voluntarily erase something from your memory, least of all permanently.
Well I don't think it is possible (given our life-span) to actually reach the limit and I am pretty sure there would be a limit as a brain does not have an infinite number of nerve connection thingies (there are lots but not infinite)
As someone who studies psychology and memory, I can say that theories concerning why we forget have more to do with how frequently we access said information and not a storage limit. You forget crap you rarely think about or didn't focus on for very long, not because there's not enough space.cleverlymadeup said:
There is definitely a limit on how much information can be stored in a certain amount of space, but I don't think anyone's ever used the full capacity of their brain. Maybe if someone needed to remember more than their brain would fit, their brain would grow more to compensate for it.
There isn't really a clear answer to this. Measuring the brain's capacity would be like measuring the capacity of a record factory in Gigabytes. It would be so inaccurate, it would be meaningless.
There isn't really a clear answer to this. Measuring the brain's capacity would be like measuring the capacity of a record factory in Gigabytes. It would be so inaccurate, it would be meaningless.
Here is a useful little quote for you.
"The man who knows everything has no room left to think."
"The man who knows everything has no room left to think."
No-one really knows, because we don't even know how we store information. All our neurons fire on and off at some point, but they don't actually stay in a fixed pattern. Therefore, our brain can't store information like machines, in a series of ons and offs.
256 MB, but I'm saving some money to upgrade to 1 GB.
Nah, apparently it's either limitless or there never was a person to reach the limit.
Also, memories are never completely forgotten, though they may become unrecallable, if you get what I mean.
They are still recallable when faced with something that reminds you of it, though (a mnemonic).
The stuff I can remember, after years and years just because something comes along that's somewhat similar or reminds me of it... just amazing.
Nah, apparently it's either limitless or there never was a person to reach the limit.
Also, memories are never completely forgotten, though they may become unrecallable, if you get what I mean.
They are still recallable when faced with something that reminds you of it, though (a mnemonic).
The stuff I can remember, after years and years just because something comes along that's somewhat similar or reminds me of it... just amazing.
There's most probably a limit, but we wouldn't know because no-one ever in the history of time has ever used the full capacity of their brain. Human beings actually don't use most of their brain, we have so much capacity it would almost seem limitless.