On 19 Mar 1997, Will Nelson wrote:
> [...]
> One of the fascinating features of the human brain is that there
> is no apparent maximum amount of information that can be stored.
There is, the outer constraints being computational physics, as the
Bekenstein limit, the inner, much more stringent ones of what gets stored
in long-term memory, few 10 bits/s at best. At that rate, it's not easy
to fill up the storage during a human lifetime.
> People learn throughout their entire lifetimes, and that learning
> keeps getting stored in some fashion. There are retrieval problems,
> but it's all in there.
Evidence please. No, not the hypnotized bricklayer, that's myth. Show me
hard data.
ciao,
'gene
>> --
> Will Nelson
> Solstice Software Products
> SunSoft
>wnelson at dna.eng.sun.com>>>
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