From: Chris Hind (chind@juno.com)
Date: Mon Oct 21 1996 - 13:51:12 MDT
>That would give an estimate of around 10-100 gigabits for one
>minute storage. However, I am sure this can be decreased quite a bit, both
>because there are inherent correlations that can be compressed, and
>because other estimates give lower values (they are in the megabit range,
>and have support in the literature). Of this information, most would be
>touch and vision, with smaller amounts of auditory information and a
>trickle of taste, smell and other senses.
MPEG Sensory Compression?!?!
>Hard. Episodic memory doesn't seem to be stored in any nice, sequential
>manner in any particular region of the brain (although some regions are
>of course more important than others); it is likely that our memories are
>distriobuted over large parts of our neural nets, mixed with each other.
>
>Besides, we do not remember sensory information. What we remember is
>rather our reactions to them, our elaborations, associations and actions,
>not exactly what happens. Memory is actually very unreliable, and
>continually recreated.
What about under hypnosis? People can recall events much more clearly.
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