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To be technical ... from a information theoretical point of view your brain definitely can't hold infinite information so it definitely fills up in the sense yo
by rawnlq 11y ago
To be technical ... from a information theoretical point of view your brain definitely can't hold infinite information so it definitely fills up in the sense you can't possibly be adding information without evicting/corrupting something else. I personally don't think we can reach that point within a human lifetime though.
Something more interesting to think about is the limits of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory which you probably fill up on a day to day basis.
- sgk284 11y agoThe brain is constantly evicting, shifting, and changing memories as new stimuli come in and change the connectivity of our neurons. In that sense the brain, from inception, is full in the same sense that in an artificial neural network every neuron has a weight. The only thing that changes are the weights. (Note that I realize ANNs are a dramatically overly simplified representation of the brain, but the point remains).
- anotheryou 11y agowhen we don't reach it in our lifetime, why do we have that over-capacity than? The brain already consumes something like 20% of our energy.