XPost: sci.electronics, sci.electronics.basics, sci.electronics.design   
   From: richgrise@example.net   
      
   On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:58:46 -0700, John Larkin wrote:   
   > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:14:20 GMT, Rich Grise    
   >>On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:27:25 -0700, John Larkin wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:26:25 GMT, Rich Grise    
   >>   
   >>>>a half-dozen of his refrigerator magnet logo thingies. Apparently I   
   >>>>voided the warranty when I stuck them to my file cabinet. ;-)   
   >>>   
   >>> Your file cabinet has a warranty?   
   >>   
   >>Boy, you don't remember stuff too good, do you? ;-)   
   >   
   > A brain is like a file cabinet: it can only hold so much,   
      
   My brain would beg to differ here. I remember _everything_, unless   
   I'm in a blackout drunk state, which I don't do very much any more.   
      
   And I'd claim that there's no theoretical limit, since "memories" and   
   stuff aren't held in some finite file cabinet-thing, but are stored in   
   patterns of synapses; you don't grow any new neurons, but there's no   
   known limit to the number of synapses you can grow - oh, yeah - we make   
   new synapses everything something makes an impact on us - I think the   
   expression of emotion releases hormones or enzymes or something that   
   stimulate synapse growth.   
      
   Ever notice that you remember stuff that was a big deal at the time, but   
   not mundane stuff, like what you had for lunch last week? :-)   
      
   You remember your downhill run - do you remember the T-bar ride just   
   before it? ;-)   
      
   Cheers!   
   Rich   
      
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