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If someone could have their life extended with no limit, would their brain eventually run out of storage space?
Hillary Shaw
Newport, Shropshire, UK
Memory storage can’t be in units of less than one atom, so if our brains stored memories linearly, like book text, at some point it would be full.
However, we don’t do this. We have memory hierarchies, so I don’t need to remember everything in my encyclopedias, just where I put them, what concepts/words those 26 or so little characters make and the order of the alphabet.
Likewise, I can write my life events down in…
