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Another interesting question regards the brain’s capacity to store memories. If you live for 500 years instead of 80, but all of your memories are eventually ov
by ryeights 5y ago
Another interesting question regards the brain’s capacity to store memories. If you live for 500 years instead of 80, but all of your memories are eventually overwritten by more recent experiences, are you even the same person anymore? Is the old you “alive” in that case? And what is the threshold at which this occurs?
- alisonkisk 5y agoWell it happens around age 3.
- Tenoke 5y agoI'm not sure if that's the relevant part but I already remember only something like 1% or less of my childhood realistically. But yes, I'm probably not the same person as child me and that person is effectively dead.
- redisman 5y agoIt’s like a log scale for me. Last few years pretty well, last decade ok, anything beyond that I have some shards here and there