I've looked for 29 years. I can see no limits on information-storage
=capacity=.
Increased information-storage isn't "free", however. Addressing requires
work, and a brain's capacity for doing such work practically delimits
the usefulness of information that can be stored.
Addressing all the items in a set is only useful to the degree that the
last item's refferents can be addressed before the "state" of the first
item addressed has not changed significantly.
The problem scales down nicely, but the "catch-22" inherent remains the
delimiting thing. It's all what's described by 2nd Thermo (wdb2t).
In practical matters, usually, there's only so much "time" available,
and failing to complete a calculation within that "time" fails to get
behavior manifested soon enough to make a difference.
Within Human interactive dynamics, a common solution to this problem is
formal Education, in which the fruits of one generations labors are
handed down to the next generation. (In modern "times", the gist of this
has been largely discounted, though. If anyone disagrees, please explain
the "state" of Public Schools and Libraries that society makes available
to the majority of its Children.)
There's another sure-fire way to deal with this delimiting factor (the
necessity of work). It's Forgiveness, and all its ramifications (AoK,
Ap8, Epilogue). To the degree that Forgiveness happens, problem-solving
"time" expands. It's a pity that, this sure-fire way is, in modern
"times", has been almost completely discounted. ken collins
Socratisa7 wrote:
>> >
> >Can anyone here answer a question I have.
> >[...]
>> I have been researching a parallel question. One, from my reading, it would
> take centuries, maybe even a few millennia, of constant learning before brain
> space would be used up.
> I myself would like to know the basis behind this conclusion, since only this
> conclusion stated in comparable ways is what I've found, not the research to
> back it up.
>> It is the research that I am particularly interested in. One interesting
> quote, the most promising I've found is:
> "...we now know, through the work of Dr. Mark Rosen[z]weig in Paris, that even
> if your brain were fed 10 items of data (each item being a simple word or
> image) every second for 100 years, it would still have used less than one-tenth
> of its storage capacity."
> --Buzan, Tony. "The Mind Map Book." p56.
>> Does anyone know how I could get Dr. Rosenzweig's research, either in a book,
> findable in a medical library (I live near Albany, NY. What would be the best
> place to go around here for medical research?) or online without having to go
> through a bajillion misses?
>> Also, I remember reading in the newspaper a while ago that the old "truism"
> that neurons don't grow more is a mistake; there was evidence of increased
> amount of neurons I think in the hippocampus, but please don't quote me here,
> my memory is tentative on the details.
>> A tentative hypothesis: even if at a given point of time all room for making
> synaptic connections in the brain are used up, does the brain have a mechanism
> of automatically "rewiring" old, hardly used, and weak synaptical connections
> in response to present learning/attention?
>> If anyone has information on how to get Rosenzweig's research or other research
> (I'm looking for specifics!) about the information capacity of the brain,
> please email me:
>Socratisa7 at aol.com>> Socratisa
