by snakebarber on January 29th, 2009

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As humans, is it possible to run out of "space" in the brain for new memories? Do we even come close to this? Or do we just delete old memories to make way for new ones?

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  • by Daisy85 on January 30th, 2009

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    I think the way it works is you can keep storing memories. Some are stored deeper than others. But you don't think of every memory constantly (which is a good thing or you would go crazy). Somethings you may forget and others come back to you when something happens to remind you of it.

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  • by MrAccident on November 18th, 2010

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    I think that the "real" question is - how can it not run out of space? I can't imagine a way.

    BTW - (if I remember correctly) in a science show they said that we use about 10% of the brain's capacity to store memories.

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  • by msgrint93 on January 29th, 2009

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    good question

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