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Re: Memory Capacity


Message written by

Craig
February 15, 2012 at 00:51:15:

In Reply to
Memory Capacity
posted by
Edward
February 14, 2012 at 16:29:37:

 
Hello Edward,

The people who make these claims about the brain haven't a shred of evidence that any of it's true. It's remarkable to me that they suggest such completely unfounded notions.

However, you can see that even in what this person writes. These are his words:

"The brain’s exact storage capacity for memories is difficult to calculate. First, we do not know how to measure the size of a memory." In other words, they have no idea how the brain can store a memory, where it's stored, or how it's recalled. Any neuroscientist has to admit that, although they're sure the mind and memories are inside the brain. They have no proof of that, but have the conviction anyway.

He later writes this: "If the human life span were significantly extended, could we fill our brains? I’m not sure. Ask me again in 100 years." But he earlier wrote, "You would have to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years to use up all that storage." The reason he says in one place that if memory is like video storage, the brain can hold 300 years of video (implying life memories), but in another place that he can't know whether a person's brain could hold more than 100 years of memories is that all of this is pure fantasy. He and all the other neuroscientists have no idea how the brain could create a mind or store memories; they have no idea where the mind is in the brain, where memories are, or how memories can be summoned at will.

Here's what they'll say. The mind's subneural connections are vast, so memories are in there somewhere, and they can't find them only because they're in the whole brain, not one location. Both statements are wildly speculative with no shred of evidence. On the other hand, we know the mind works fine independent of the brain, and the mind keeps on going happily when the brain stops functioning. All the memories, personality, attitude, and thinking processes are still there, even when the brain dies! None of that could happen if the mind were in the brain.

Love and peace, Craig


 



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