Long-term memory: scaling of information to brain size

Forsdyke, Donald R.

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00397

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“…In the mid-1950s, von Neumann (von Neumann 1958 calculated that 2.8×10 20 bits of information (around 10 11 CD-ROM discs) should be stored for an average human lifetime, and therefore he made doubt on the ability of the brain to have such storage capacity. Due to the above limitations, it is inevitable to consider other hypotheses for the mechanism of LTM storage (R. Forsdyke, 2014).…”

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“…Questions about the location, duration, and capacity of storage, as well as the types of information that are stored, are very critical to be answered. In this paper, we perform a brief review of the current theories on the mechanism of LTM storage in the brain, and also the credibility of the idea that LTM is stored in a metaphysical configuration (human soul) (R. Forsdyke, 2014;Forsdyke, 2009;DRAAISMA, 2000) will be discussed. For a clearer exploration, all functions relevant to the LTM formation are also elaborated.…”

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Investigating A Hypothesis on The Mechanism of Long-Term Memory Storage

Batouli

Sisakhti

2019

Neuroquantology

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Memory is a fundamental cognitive function of the human, and long-term memory (LTM) plays a substantial role in it. Despite all the research, the mechanism of the storage of LTM data in the brain, as well as the brain areas responsible for it, are not clearly identified yet. There is an ancient philosophical idea that the human memory is stored in an extracorporeal space, i.e. the human soul. In this study, using a materialistic approach, we aimed to take one step in investigating the role of human soul in brain functionality by assessing the compliance of this old idea with the available neuroscientific facts. Although with the current knowledge of the human it is not possible to accept nor to deny or examine the existence of soul, we think people in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, or psychiatry should start speaking about "human soul" in their works; belief in soul is nearly as old as the history of human, and one day people should start to scientifically investigate it.

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Section: Ltm Storage Current Viewmentioning

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Investigating A Hypothesis on The Mechanism of Long-Term Memory Storage

Batouli

Sisakhti

2019

Neuroquantology

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“…Savants with normal brain size can demonstrate a huge, disproportional, memory space (entire novels and even contents of telephone books are memorized in detail). Hydrocephalic patients that have only 5% of normal brain volume (micro-cephaly) can show quite normal intelligence and social behavior (Forsdyke, 2014). Other striking examples are patients with a largely destroyed forebrain that maintain a quite normal life (Sasal et al, 2016).…”

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Consciousness in the Universe is Scale Invariant and Implies an Event Horizon of the Human Brain

Meijer¹,

Geesink²

2017

Neuroquantology

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Our brain is not a "stand alone" information processing organ: it acts as a central part of our integral nervous system with recurrent information exchange with the entire organism and the cosmos. In this study, the brain is conceived to be embedded in a holographic structured field that interacts with resonant sensitive structures in the various cell types in our body. In order to explain earlier reported ultra-rapid brain responses and effective operation of the meta-stable neural system, a field-receptive mental workspace is proposed to be communicating with the brain. Our integral nervous system is seen as a dedicated neural transmission and multi-cavity network that, in a non-dual manner, interacts with the proposed supervening meta-cognitive domain. Among others, it is integrating discrete patterns of eigen-frequencies of photonic/solitonic waves, thereby continuously updating a time-symmetric global memory space of the individual. Its toroidal organization allows the coupling of gravitational, dark energy, zero-point energy field (ZPE) as well as earth magnetic fields energies and transmits wave information into brain tissue, that thereby is instrumental in high speed conscious and sub-conscious information processing. We propose that the supposed field-receptive workspace, in a mutual interaction with the whole nervous system, generates self-consciousness and is conceived as operating from a 4 th spatial dimension (hyper-sphere). Its functional structure is adequately defined by the geometry of the torus, that is envisioned as a basic unit (operator) of space-time. The latter is instrumental in collecting the pattern of discrete soliton frequencies that provided an algorithm for coherent life processes, as earlier identified by us. It is postulated that consciousness in the entire universe arises through, scale invariant, nested toroidal coupling of various energy fields, that may include quantum error correction. In the brain of the human species, this takes the form of the proposed holographic workspace, that collects active information in a "brain event horizon", representing an internal and fully integral model of the self. This brain-supervening workspace is equipped to convert integrated coherent wave energies into attractor type/standing waves that guide the related cortical template to a higher coordination of reflection and action as well as network synchronicity, as required for conscious states. In relation to its scale-invariant global character, we find support for a universal information matrix, that was extensively described earlier, as a supposed implicate order as well as in a spectrum of space-time theories in current physics. The presence of a field-receptive resonant workspace, associated with, but not reducible to, our brain, may provide an interpretation framework for widely reported, but poorly understood transpersonal conscious states and algorithmic origin of life. It also points out the deep connection of mankind with the cosmos and our major responsibility for the future of our ...

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“…We chuckle on learning how spiritualists duped such characters. Yet the possibility now emerges of at least some grains of truth amidst the dross that we poor creatures, imprisoned within the second decade of the 21st century, can understand no better than those imprisoned in the latter decades of the 19th could fathom ''the missing five ounces'' (Romanes 1887;Forsdyke 2014Forsdyke , 2015. Amongst the early 20th century beliefs of Wittgenstein (1969, p. 37e) was ''that it isn't possible to get to the moon; but there might be people who believe that that is possible … they are wrong and we know it.''…”

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“…Enlarged ventricles (middle and right). Reproduced under Creative Commons License from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience(Forsdyke 2014) …”

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Wittgenstein’s Certainty is Uncertain: Brain Scans of Cured Hydrocephalics Challenge Cherished Assumptions

Forsdyke

2015

Biol Theory

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The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein chose as his prime exemplar of certainty the fact that the skulls of normal people are filled with neural tissue, not sawdust. In 1980 the British pediatrician John Lorber reported that some normal adults, apparently cured of childhood hydrocephaly, had no more than 5 % of the volume of normal brain tissue. While initially disbelieved, Lorber's observations have since been independently confirmed by clinicians in France and Brazil. Thus Wittgenstein's certainty has become uncertain. Furthermore, the paradox that the human brain's information content (memory) appears to exceed the storage capacity of even normal-sized brains, requires resolution. This article is one of a series on disparities between brain size and its assumed information content, as seen in cases of savant syndrome, microcephaly, and hydrocephaly, and with special reference to the Victorian era views of Conan Doyle, Samuel Butler, and Darwin's research associate, George Romanes. The articles argue that, albeit unlikely, the scope of explanations must not exclude extracorporeal information storage.

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Long-term memory: scaling of information to brain size

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Investigating A Hypothesis on The Mechanism of Long-Term Memory Storage

Investigating A Hypothesis on The Mechanism of Long-Term Memory Storage

Consciousness in the Universe is Scale Invariant and Implies an Event Horizon of the Human Brain

Wittgenstein’s Certainty is Uncertain: Brain Scans of Cured Hydrocephalics Challenge Cherished Assumptions

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