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[A941]

How would an Immortal Being store his/her accumulated Knowledge/memory if this is growing for all eternity?
One day that knowledge would not even bee accessible in its vastness.
And if some portions would be deleted, wouldn't that partly destroy the personality of the being?

[trance]

Storage will be free, your download will just be genetically altered to always want to purchase products who've paid to support the storage site.

[A941]

What i meant was that you will have to choose which memories you want to keep and which you want to delete to stay flexible.
So you will either loose a lot of them and change gradually, or don't ad any new experiences which means stagnation, and none of them seems to be a nice choice (oblivion or total halt).

[Danail Bulgaria]

Certainly alot of memories will vanish. We for example do not have memories for the first years of our life. Think about it. What do You remember from the time, when You was 4 months old?
Nevertheless, the most important memories will be stored until the person's life in his/her own brain. This will be n information about who You are, where You currently live etc.
For alot of information, that can be important and can vanish, there are ways this information to be recorded in photos, written form, videos and audios.

[A941]

Yes but you accumulate knowledge and Memorys, and if you only have your brain you lose those informations, someday you will be some sort of Alzheimer patient who cant remember important things. You could earn, lets say, 25 PhDs but in the end you wouldnt be able to work in these fields because your brain was filled with something else.
So you would change completely over time, become a different person... oblivion maybe?

Also, one day we would run out of space to store our information, even if we put them one every single atom.
What could be done to prevent this?

[Danail Bulgaria]

The brain knows its job. It will forget everything except Your "CURRENTLY needed information", such as Your beloved ones, Your current address and the information needed for Your current job. At the time of the third PhD You will probabbly know nothing for the first two. Believe it or not, some people today, who have several high educations are experiencing the phenomenon of knowing too less for their first high educations The good news are that they are alive, and they very well manage their currently needed information.

At the time the humanity runs out of space for storing information, it definately will be on another planet with more resources.

[BLimitless]

How would an Immortal Being store his/her accumulated Knowledge/memory if this is growing for all eternity?
One day that knowledge would not even bee accessible in its vastness.
And if some portions would be deleted, wouldn't that partly destroy the personality of the being?

Probably by expanding a singularity and creating a physical universe with continually expanding entropy driven by a self-configuring algorithm.

[Layberinthius]

No need for something so grandiose.

Holographic storage cubes implanted into all of our brains will go a long way to increasing our capacities for the time being. Similar to how its depicted in the movie "Nirvana".

In the shorter term it could be a result of hard drive storage or solid state storage and a connection/umbilical cord/wireless connection to our computers and our brain, the computers could then remain within close proximity to our bodies or remain in storage somewhere. But keep it well protected from theft. And all connections going into or out of are very well encrypted. You wouldnt want your thoughts or actions to be influenced by an outside party. Think, remote control human.

Edited by Layberinthius, 23 August 2013 - 11:35 AM.

[Super Neuro]

The brain knows its job. It will forget everything except Your "CURRENTLY needed information", such as Your beloved ones, Your current address and the information needed for Your current job. At the time of the third PhD You will probabbly know nothing for the first two. Believe it or not, some people today, who have several high educations are experiencing the phenomenon of knowing too less for their first high educations The good news are that they are alive, and they very well manage their currently needed information.

At the time the humanity runs out of space for storing information, it definately will be on another planet with more resources.

Assuming that we are integrating with technology, the evolution of the brain will change over generations. A more efficient way of problem-solving, for example, would be to focus on the macro and neglect the micro (as tech could deal with such problems). It's hard to predict how are brains will change over the coming millenia.

At present, this is all speculation, as we do not currently have a way to extend the memory storage of the human brain into a mechanical one.