>It almost sounds like she’s just passively absorbing banal shit rather than there being any kind of consciousness.
So? They don't want to use her as a trove of historically important information, but to study her as a person which "super memory".
For that, it doesn't matter if it's about human anatomy, quantum physics, or what was said in every episode of Melrose Place.
The mechanism by which those are absorbed and retained, and in such quality and recall is what's interesting, the content is not important.
>Kinda like a camera with an endless hard drive. Interesting, but what do you do with it?
If I was an engineer for a storage company I'd very much like to know how an "endless hard drive" works. It would solve tons of storage and archiving problems, and could make trillions.
For human memory, a 2x or 3x or 10x increase in storage/recall efficiency would be a huge thing.
My dad was a huge fan of Sony’s Watchman series of portable TVs. He had 2 or 3 different models. In the 1990s, I would steal them when I’d go on school trips in elementary school so I wouldn’t miss my TV shows. The limitation of antenna stuff made it less than ideal in a moving vehicle, but being able to watch Melrose Place on a bus in third grade instead of Homeward Bound or The Sandlot was pretty dope.
Which is all to say, very young filmgirl would have loved this shit.
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>It almost sounds like she’s just passively absorbing banal shit rather than there being any kind of consciousness.
So? They don't want to use her as a trove of historically important information, but to study her as a person which "super memory".
For that, it doesn't matter if it's about human anatomy, quantum physics, or what was said in every episode of Melrose Place.
The mechanism by which those are absorbed and retained, and in such quality and recall is what's interesting, the content is not important.
>Kinda like a camera with an endless hard drive. Interesting, but what do you do with it?
If I was an engineer for a storage company I'd very much like to know how an "endless hard drive" works. It would solve tons of storage and archiving problems, and could make trillions.
For human memory, a 2x or 3x or 10x increase in storage/recall efficiency would be a huge thing.
My dad was a huge fan of Sony’s Watchman series of portable TVs. He had 2 or 3 different models. In the 1990s, I would steal them when I’d go on school trips in elementary school so I wouldn’t miss my TV shows. The limitation of antenna stuff made it less than ideal in a moving vehicle, but being able to watch Melrose Place on a bus in third grade instead of Homeward Bound or The Sandlot was pretty dope.
Which is all to say, very young filmgirl would have loved this shit.