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Sounds like defragmentation are first sight. Seems likely that the storage algorithm for human memory could use periodic optimization, especially since we recon
by ajju 5y ago
Sounds like defragmentation are first sight. Seems likely that the storage algorithm for human memory could use periodic optimization, especially since we recontextualize memories over time.
For example, let’s say we smell a lychee for the first time in a shop, and the brain stores that memory using a given set of neurons. Later, a hawker starts selling lychees in the local train in Mumbai we commute on everyday. Now memories of the smell of lychees and the smells and experiences of Mumbai local trains become strongly linked. At that point, in a simplified model of the brain, I can imagine why the brain may want to move those memories so they are using neurons that are closer together. Defragmentation!
I am likely terribly wrong, but would love to learn in what way I am wrong :)
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- gremlinsinc 5y agoI had a similar thought, albeit dumbed down just that neurons represent RAM locations, and memory locations can change but the data can be identical to data that was stored in other locations previously...
- vbsteven 5y agoThere is I believe also a theory that suggests that the brain actively rewrites and combines/compresses memories to make them more useful. That also fits in well with this defragmentation concept.
- icheishvili 5y agoI've had a hypothesis for a while that the brain performs compacting garbage collection while it sleeps at night. While it's probably not that simple, seeing that various sibling posters are hinting at the same notion is interesting.