Re: Brain
- From: "Chickenhead" <kurtWITHOUTTHESPAMshapNOSPAMiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:35:41 -0800
I find this subject fascinating. As far as I can tell, a good deal of
memory involves imagination and reconstruction.
Here's an interesting game/exercise I play sometimes when driving the big
rigs:
I just try to see how many license plate numbers I can remember at once
after reading them. I'll read one off a car as it goes by and then see how
long I remember it for or how many more I can remember before I forget one,
and how many details about the car I remember. Often I'll see the same car
again and check myself.
There's really no concrete number that I can remember, but it's interesting
to observe how my memory functions and deals with the memorization. When
I'm tired, I can't remember as many. Also, the longer I keep repeating and
recalling the memory, the longer it lasts.
Also, greater number of license plates I try to remember the harder it gets.
It's also fun to try to find the line between short-term and long term
memory. What's interesting too, is trying to remember them the next day, or
even later in the same day after not thinking about it for a while.
My own experiments with myself as the subject seem to indicate that there is
not merely short-term and long-term memory, but many different types and
lengths and levels of granularity. It's also very hard to memorize without
reconstructing. But things can often change a little on reconstruction.
Even getting eyewitnesses to agree on the details of the same event can be
very difficult. Witnesses also change their "memories" if told or convinced
that certain details exist that they weren't really paying attention to or
looking for.
As far the brain being limitless for storing music, there seems to be a big
difference between my brain and Stevie Wonder's. I suspect some are more
limitless than others. Stevie seems to have zettabytes and yottabytes,
whereas I seem to have gotten something closer in capacity to an old floppy
disk.
"RickH" <passport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Limitless, as the brain creates intelligent dynamic patterns to store
> information, I dont think it's anything like a filing cabinet that can
> get full (unless you're Kelly Bundy). So just keep adding more stuff.
>
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