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08 Feb 2013, 7:10 pm

Every intimate detail of your entire life is stored somewhere in your consciousness.
No, there is no upper limit on your mind's memory capacity.
There are obviously limits on what can be recalled.



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10 Feb 2013, 7:23 am

ripped wrote:
Every intimate detail of your entire life is stored somewhere in your consciousness.
No, there is no upper limit on your mind's memory capacity.
There are obviously limits on what can be recalled.


I have to agree with this. Unless there is some form physical damage to the brain memories are not erased. Forgetting is a component of access rather than erasure IMO.



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10 Feb 2013, 7:32 am

Rascal77s wrote:
ripped wrote:
Every intimate detail of your entire life is stored somewhere in your consciousness.
No, there is no upper limit on your mind's memory capacity.
There are obviously limits on what can be recalled.


I have to agree with this. Unless there is some form physical damage to the brain memories are not erased. Forgetting is a component of access rather than erasure IMO.


If not erasure than failure to store. There is a portion of the brain (the hippocampus) that promotes short term memory to long term memory. When this function fails the short term memories are lost and not stored.

Most memory problems are difficulty in accessing what has been stored.

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13 Feb 2013, 3:10 pm

This is why Sherlock doesn't know the Earth goes around the sun.