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There's an argument to be made that it's generally a disadvantage to remember every day of your life. Brains are finite in resources (memory and processing abil
by fragsworth 14y ago
There's an argument to be made that it's generally a disadvantage to remember every day of your life. Brains are finite in resources (memory and processing abilities), and if you remember too many unimportant details, you might be wasting lots of those resources.
I would think an efficient brain compresses and abstracts the important information out, and ignores the minutiae.
- chc 14y agoThat would only be true if can max out our memory over a century. Has anybody ever actually "reached capacity"?
- fragsworth 14y agoI'm not an expert, but here's what makes the most sense to me: at any given time, we are probably "at capacity" and our brains are constantly dumping out and/or compressing old information to make room for new information.