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The brain is very much optimized. You're not going to hack thousands of years of evolution. The brain's a LRU cache.
by bmikaili 6y ago
The brain is very much optimized. You're not going to hack thousands of years of evolution. The brain's a LRU cache.
- watwut 6y ago> You're not going to hack thousands of years of evolution. The evolution did not optimized my brain to remember all the things I want to remember, whether from reading or listening. So I gotta hack it. The evolution did not made us perfect.
- adamrt 6y agoI’ve actually heard of studies suggesting it’s specifically not an LRU. That each time you remember something the memory is rewritten (via proteins) so that memory is less and less accurate they more you remember it. One of my all time favorite podcasts is about it: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91569-memory-and-forgetting https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91569... I’m sure science has progressed but I listened to this many years ago. You might dig it.
- bmikaili 6y agoThanks for sharing!