What If You Never Forgot Anything?
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Thank you to brilliant dot org for supporting PBS Digital Studios. Sherlock Holmes, the legendary detective, had a theory that the brain is like an attic where a person can only store a limited amount of memories. Dr. Watson once told him that the Earth travels around the sun, duh, to which Holmes replied, “Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.” Holmes figured, clutter your attic with random facts and trivia, and you won’t have room for the things that matter, like identifying the tiny differences between lethal poisons. Was Holmes right? Is our memory limited, like the storage capacity of a computer? Or is our memory unlimited? And if we did have perfect memory, what would life be like if you never forgot anything? [OPEN] The animated film Inside Out depicted memorie...
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Thank you to brilliant dot org for supporting PBS Digital Studios. Sherlock Holmes, the legendary detective, had a theory that the brain is like an attic where a person can only store a limited amount of memories. Dr. Watson once told him that the Earth travels around the sun, duh, to which Holmes replied, “Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.” Holmes figured, clutter your attic with random facts and trivia, and you won’t have room for the things that matter, like identifying the tiny differences between lethal poisons. Was Holmes right? Is our memory limited, like the storage capacity of a computer? Or is our memory unlimited? And if we did have perfect memory, what would life be like if you never forgot anything? [OPEN] The animated film Inside Out depicted memorie...
