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Does the human brain have endless memory capacity?

SoreArms

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It is said that the human brain permanently stores every single second of your waking life, every single event that has ever happened to you is stored and archived. What is forgotten is the path to find the storage location of the event/memory so that is the reason why you seem to "forget" certain things. I think this also explains why people seem to remeber lost thoughts when going to a therapist/psychiatrist/hypnotist/whatever. They guide you through the steps and help you find the path back to the storage location of lost memories.

How much information can the human brain hold? Is it measurable in something like Terrabytes or a zillion quazillion bytes? Is there a point where it just fills up, no more information can fit, maybe old memories get thrashed in place of new ones? Since it is said that we only use 10% of our brain's capacity, do you think anyone will ever, reach the point of full capacity (or do you think any one has)?
 
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J/K
 
The_Green_Scarab said:
^256MB limit
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But I'm upgradeable... I come with slots for more storage....

:doublefi:
 
It certainly has limits, the brain is a physical object with limited size and capacity. Most likely those limits are far beyond what any living human has ever used.

A neater question is how would the brain handle being filled to it's limit? Would it purge old memories, or simply stop storing new ones? Would there be some warning or indication that you are approaching a "disk full" status?
 
Our mind only allows us to see, remember what we can handle.. it is a marvelous thing
 
I think our minds keep recycling memories and skills, learning new ones will eventually push old ones out; unless we keep those old ones active, which we probably would never have time for once we got to the point where the limits of memory capacity would actually become an issue.
 
My motor control and learning book, if I remember correctly, said the brain has an unlimited capacity. My guess is the number is so ridiculously high we don't even have a number for it.
 
I know one thing, I'll never be able to remember what happened to me up at Truman State University one weekend. Lots and lots of vodka tends to mess with memory a little bit.
 
Forge said:
It certainly has limits, the brain is a physical object with limited size and capacity. Most likely those limits are far beyond what any living human has ever used.

A neater question is how would the brain handle being filled to it's limit? Would it purge old memories, or simply stop storing new ones? Would there be some warning or indication that you are approaching a "disk full" status?
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dunno, but since the biggest part of ''memory'' is forgetting it seems like the upper limit would always change, relative to the time it's been since the last REM cycle.
 
Theres a person with perfect recall in Russia I think, remembers everything. I remember studying that in my psych 350 cognition and memory course. Discrimination of memories is necessary to proper function.
 
Wow something I am learning is actually going to be some use to someone....
There are three stages of learning or the information-processing theory of memory

1. is the sensory register.... this is the all the input that you take in to from the environment.. This is a brief stage of memory and only 1 to 3 percent will be processed further...

2. is the Short term memory.... This is brief and limited and they say it hold between 5-9 BITS of info... bits could be words, letter or groupings of things... There is biological limitations to these phase and it only lasts for a few seconds to a minute... then that info will either be processed further or lost forever...

3. is the Long Term memory... If the information is processed to this stage it will last forever and it also has unlimited capasity...

We have 3 types of long term memories
1. Procedural- which are skills (how to do something)
2. Semantic- meanings
3. Episodic- time

you forget long term memory because of 4 things
1. Decay- memories will fade over time if not thought about
2. Interference- new memories that are similar
3. Reconstruction- memories that change over time
4. Motivated forgetting- memories that you forget because they are changelling or harmful...

Wow thanks for the review!!
 
NERD ALERT NERD ALERT NERD ALERT NERD ALERT!!
Wow all that and you didnt answer the question...LOL j/k watcha studying now/? Anything interesting?
 
courtneybcca said:
Wow something I am learning is actually going to be some use to someone....
There are three stages of learning or the information-processing theory of memory

1. is the sensory register.... this is the all the input that you take in to from the environment.. This is a brief stage of memory and only 1 to 3 percent will be processed further...

2. is the Short term memory.... This is brief and limited and they say it hold between 5-9 BITS of info... bits could be words, letter or groupings of things... There is biological limitations to these phase and it only lasts for a few seconds to a minute... then that info will either be processed further or lost forever...

3. is the Long Term memory... If the information is processed to this stage it will last forever and it also has unlimited capasity...

We have 3 types of long term memories
1. Procedural- which are skills (how to do something)
2. Semantic- meanings
3. Episodic- time

you forget long term memory because of 4 things
1. Decay- memories will fade over time if not thought about
2. Interference- new memories that are similar
3. Reconstruction- memories that change over time
4. Motivated forgetting- memories that you forget because they are changelling or harmful...

Wow thanks for the review!!
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its my understanding there are more divisions of the longer term memory than what you are getting at. i dont remember exactly what happens to make long term memories move from your hippocampus into your cortex after several months. more than one type of longer term memory can also be differentiated on the basis of whether or not protein synthesis occurs as a result of new mRNA snythesis or if already present strands are used.

Is declarative memory not long term?

is the biological limitation to short term memory that youre talking about in reference to memory where no protein synthesis occurs?


the part about the number of "bits" isnt something im familiar with either. is that from a textbook or a link on the net? if its a link could you post it, id like to read it.
 
well the long term is what they call it now according to my prof... I am getting all this out of my textbook... And I did say the long term memory has unlimited capacity which means there is no limit... Of course there are more divisions of the long term memory but that is just the basics we could go on all night about this... And I am studying but thanks for making my mind work ;)
 
JP you know what bits mean, its like those tests that are given where they give you a list a numbers or something and asked to repeat as many as you can, most can only remember 5-9. I never heard them called bits before, but I think thats what its referring to. BTW shes studying intro psych I think and they dont get very in depth into memory, just an introduction to it.
 
BrothaBill said:
JP you know what bits mean, its like those tests that are given where they give you a list a numbers or something and asked to repeat as many as you can, most can only remember 5-9. I never heard them called bits before, but I think thats what its referring to. BTW shes studying intro psych I think and they dont get very in depth into memory, just an introduction to it.
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Exactly right :)
We did one of those test in class really interesting!!
 
BrothaBill said:
JP you know what bits mean, its like those tests that are given where they give you a list a numbers or something and asked to repeat as many as you can, most can only remember 5-9. I never heard them called bits before, but I think thats what its referring to. BTW shes studying intro psych I think and they dont get very in depth into memory, just an introduction to it.
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god dang, in my first psych class i dont remember anything like that. holy crap. im just regurgitating something from experimental neurobiology and one other neuro class that was pertinent.
 
SHHHHHH! Im trying to change my image on the board LOL!!


Man, I swear, those higher plateaus are just amazing. Infinite dimensions, infinite realities. All the theoretical physics and everything else Ive studied, it all comes together, it all makes sense. I wish I could retain even 1% of the knowledge that you see up in those zones. BTW, we were discussing on another board about time travel, do you believe in that? Theres some interesting research using lasers based on einsteins work thats trying to bend time into a loop.
 
BrothaBill said:
SHHHHHH! Im trying to change my image on the board LOL!!


Man, I swear, those higher plateaus are just amazing. Infinite dimensions, infinite realities. All the theoretical physics and everything else Ive studied, it all comes together, it all makes sense. I wish I could retain even 1% of the knowledge that you see up in those zones. BTW, we were discussing on another board about time travel, do you believe in that? Theres some interesting research using lasers based on einsteins work thats trying to bend time into a loop.
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lol physics really isnt my well, even weakness. i didnt retain anything. the little i remember about time travel was talking in cal I about if you could run faster than the speed of light and whatnot. (dunno)
 
Nothing faster than light, e=mc2 proves that as you approached light speed, mass moves towards infinity, infinite amounts of energy is required to propel it. But if you were on a train going the speed of light and threw a baseball it would appear to go back in time as to an observer due to relativity.
 
The_Green_Scarab said:
It is said that the human brain permanently stores every single second of your waking life, every single event that has ever happened to you is stored and archived. What is forgotten is the path to find the storage location of the event/memory so that is the reason why you seem to "forget" certain things. I think this also explains why people seem to remeber lost thoughts when going to a therapist/psychiatrist/hypnotist/whatever. They guide you through the steps and help you find the path back to the storage location of lost memories.

How much information can the human brain hold? Is it measurable in something like Terrabytes or a zillion quazillion bytes? Is there a point where it just fills up, no more information can fit, maybe old memories get thrashed in place of new ones? Since it is said that we only use 10% of our brain's capacity, do you think anyone will ever, reach the point of full capacity (or do you think any one has)?
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My brain is like a computer......a computer that is infested with porn, pop ups and lost and hidden files. :D
 
Frisky said:
But I'm upgradeable... I come with slots for more storage....

:doublefi:
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Damn... that definitely got my wheels turning!!! wooohooooo.

Anyway... how would that apply to people with amnesia, then they can't basically create new paths and all the memories are still there?

Anybody remembers Memento? Something like that hapenning to you must be really scary...
 
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