Your Memory Is More Useful Than Data Storage
Cultures evolve just as much as biological organisms, where will we go with our new tech version of society?
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD.
Thanks for the memories…
Your ability to learn and remember things is extremely useful, but in recent times more endangered. We now store data in devices and computers more than we do in our own heads.
Basically, this is a use it or lose it situation.
Many who study sociology and psychology realize that society is rapidly changing. Technology has great advantages, but also costs, not just to the planet with all our extra stuff, but to the cultures we are embedded within.
There is also information overload, so much to store that we cannot ever begin to keep track of all of it.
We learn and memorize with our hippocampus, an area of the brain in the temporal lobe that both forms and retrieves memory. The hippocampus also is critical in emotion and spatial awareness.
Many Muslims memorize the Qu’ran, their spiritual guide in life. The ability to form and retrieve memory is a very human trait. In…
