Why can the brain remember so much info?

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Anonymous Sat Jun 18 14:15:21 2011 No.3246280 [Reply] [Original]

Why can the brain remember so much info?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 18 14:16:21 2011 No.3246283 >>3246280 Top notch compression & reconstruction

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 18 14:18:21 2011 No.3246293 >>3246283 Shitty lossy compression and random memory overwriting.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 18 14:20:21 2011 No.3246299 >>3246293 I think the human filesystem should be updated.. I would recommend ext4

Adalon !cla0aHFoM2 Sat Jun 18 17:15:21 2011 No.3246903

The use of repetition and the way the brain is able to interconnect memories based on a common thread helps to create a priority system that can sort out the majority of static while still retaining a huge library of significant information? Having a common thread that can trigger the brain to search through related memories is how we can actually work with the amount of information that is available. I don't remember the specifics, but that was the general impression I got from the random psych lectures I was awake for.

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