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Is there an actual limit to how much you can learn? How much terabyte of the average dick's brain is made up of porn, dumb youtube videos and memes? Is there any way to clear your brain of prior garbage? Meditation? Religion?
Goddamnit every time i pick up a book all i can think about it fucking this and fucking that and some other dumb shit

is that just destiny for >140 IQ?

>> No.9812068

>>9812043
Yeah just try harder. It's called grit.

>> No.9812083

>>9812043
Practically infinite for our purposes. Your brain can't really run out of memory. You might get bored and absorb less if no tho.

>> No.9812088

>>9812083
does your brain erase pointless shit?

>> No.9812099

>>9812088
it has in-built Garbage Collection

myelin is correlated with neuroplasticity. its production slows down with age, but isnt shut down completely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelin

>> No.9812102

>>9812088
Do you remember what you had for lunch 2 years back?Actually do you even remember what you had for lunch 2 days ago?

>> No.9812122

>>9812043
There are professional / cash prize having memorization competitions, the people who compete in that are probably the best gauge for what the limits are. If someone could do much better that someone probably would've been making money off of it already.

>> No.9812129

>>9812102
i ate two red hots with mustard onions and pepperjack with a side of boiled peanuts, cheezit grooves, and a few glasses of tea and milk for unch two day ago

>> No.9812131

>>9812043
>>9812122
In fact it sounds like the US memory championship was explicitly created for the purpose of "testing the limits of the human brain:"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Memory_Championship

>> No.9812134

>>9812122
these memory tricks work by permutation and recall of hundreds and thousands of elements, its only a small subset of memory power. the real benchmark are autistic people who have perfect memory of their entire life without using tricks.

>> No.9812135

>>9812102
Yes and yes, but only because I eat nothing but ramen noodles and milk (plus multivitamins for scurvy protection).

>> No.9812137

>>9812102
i ate nothing because it was Ramadan and maths is the religious man's spectre to look at God

>> No.9812136

>>9812134
How do you know autistic people don't use tricks?
They might use the same tricks and not even be aware of it.

>> No.9812149

>>9812136
tricksters appear differently under MRI

also real autists outperform tricksters easily, like "rainman" with his phonebook etc

>> No.9812165

>>9812149
Daniel Tammet was tested by multiple different neurologists who corroborated his story about having autism based, automatically intuitive memorization and calculations skills.
And he's very likely a fraud (was a major part of the Moonwalking with Einstein competitive memorization book, the author interviewed / tested him and got the impression he was just using the same tricks everyone else in memorization competitions use; he also investigated Tammet's past and found out he had in fact participated in memorization competitions years ago under a different name and also he did well in a face memorization competition despite claiming his autism made him unable to recognize faces).

>> No.9812167

>>9812149
>>9812165
Point being you shouldn't overrate what neurologists and brain scans can do.
They're very, very, very far from constituting infallible mind readers.

>> No.9812180

>>9812165
>>9812167
thats just a case of premature diagnosis. the experimental data like MRI is unambiguous.

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9812209

>>9812180
The guy who wrote that book specifically mentioned he believed the real problem was most people assuming technology and experts corroborating someone's claims means they must be true.
Also there's the dead salmon study as far as the MRIs being infallible idea goes.
http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf
>Subject. One mature Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) participated in the fMRI study. The salmon was approximately 18 inches long, weighed 3.8 lbs, and was not alive at the time of scanning.
>Task. The task administered to the salmon involved completing an open-ended mentalizing task. The salmon was shown a series of photographs depicting human individuals in social situations with a specified emotional valence. The salmon was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo must have been experiencing.
>Several active voxels were discovered in a cluster located within the salmon's brain cavity (Figure 1, see above). The size of this cluster was 81 mm3 with a cluster-level significance of p = 0.001.
>Out of a search volume of 8064 voxels a total of 16 voxels were significant.

>> No.9812272

>>9812122
>>9812131
>>9812134
Where can I read about these memory tricks? How difficult is it to learn them?

>> No.9812297

>>9812129
Strange but i your taste

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9812301

>>981220
the fuck

>> No.9812305

>>9812272
usually a combination of these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system
the basic concepts are easy, but regular praxis necessary

>> No.9813543

>>9812043
I like to think of it as saving over junk

>> No.9813566

"The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. If each neuron could only help store a single memory, running out of space would be a problem. You might have only a few gigabytes of storage space, similar to the space in an iPod or a USB flash drive. Yet neurons combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time, exponentially increasing the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes). For comparison, if your brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, 2.5 petabytes would be enough to hold three million hours of TV shows. You would have to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years to use up all that storage." -https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-memory-capacity/

>> No.9813680

>>9812137
hahahaha, mudshit exposed himself, i guess you must be proud of your gay muhamadh "prophet".

>> No.9813691

>>9812102
Pizza bread. Because I eat pizza bread very most of the time. Gotcha

>> No.9813726

>>9813680
Hey I'm a ginger you asshole leave me alone. I knew this would happen. This is why I accepted Islam. You guys don't stop bullying us even though we're white.

>> No.9813738

>>9813566
Are you saying 300 years are the max human brain capacity? Hmmm oh well looks like that's the limit.