From: Delvieron@aol.com
Date: Thu Dec 02 1999 - 20:32:52 MST
In a message dated 12/2/1999 7:10:45 PM EST, spike66@ibm.net writes:
<< I think I posted to another list the notion that
if we manage to work out some means of greatly extending life,
we may need to work out a way of methodically discarding information
from our brains:
Randomly eliminating memories?
Systematically erasing the oldest memories?
How about eliminating those memories of ourselves doing something
stupid or embarrassing? That should free up a lotta space in my case.
{8^D spike >>
Or how about consolidating redundant memories. Where there are several
memories which are not very unique or important, they could be consolidated
into just a handful of abstract memories, such as one memory of walking to a
particular school when young. One archtypal composite memory could probably
serve as well as memories of every time I walked to school. A few memorable
walks might remain separate, or as additions to the composite memory. I
suspect that redundant events are already stored this way to some extent.
Glen Finney
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