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~70% of the information survived though: Ultimately, the report found that 799 literary tales out of an original 1,170 are still around today. It also found th
by tpmx 4y ago
~70% of the information survived though:
Ultimately, the report found that 799 literary tales out of an original 1,170 are still around today. It also found that those stories were written down in a total of 40,614 manuscripts, but only 3,648 of those have survived.
- tetris11 4y agoThis really should ought to be higher. Our collective shared human memory is largely (~68%) still intact, even if we haven't written down enough.
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoWhere does 68% come from?
- s1artibartfast 4y agoMy memory /s
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoIf it was lower how would we know? Collective memory seems to be defined as "the shared pool of memories, knowledge and information of a social group that is significantly associated with the group's identity", and I don't really know what information is significant to the human identity. That number also seems to really depend on how we define "shared human memory" given that there's been something like 100 billion people on the planet over time and we don't remember the vast majority of their days, conversations, dreams, or poops.
- jacobr1 4y agoWritten material ... which is a very small (though very important) subset of shared human memory.
- abecedarius 4y agoOK, but these are not identical printed books. You can learn a lot from the variants. (They should've said 'estimated', not 'found'.)