Short term memory

Short term memory .
Andre Willers
14 May 2011

Synopsis :
Short term memory is a reverse valve .It reduces the complexity of brain functions into usable chunks .
To paraphrase Rossouw:
"All humans are born smart , but everywhere they are stupid."
What gives ?

Discussion :
The usual human explanation is that incoming data is put into a temporary register of about 4-7 items . This is then manipulated to give some indication of smartness .

What happens in reality :
Data floods in through millions of receptors in the eyes , skin , nose , ears ., etc
This gets sent to the brain , where the signals are integrated . At the upper levels of the brain are mirror-neuron networks , mimicking other people (other mirror-networks) .
All this takes time . About 0.25 seconds . The end result is a voted result .

Short-term memory is a consequence of feedback memory management , not input deficiency .

What does this mean ?
You are stupid not because of your brain deficiencies , but because your brain meters smartness .
This has survival value in low-energy environments .

Can you be smarter ?
Certainly . It is stupidity that is programmed in . But be careful of what you wish for .

The Cassandra Effect and pulsed Singularities :
Being very smart in a Beth(0) Universe leads to complexification of Beth(1+) .
Singularities of one .
You can only escape this in transitional Beth() states . And good luck to you .

General unhappiness for a social being .
If you understand this , you are already there .

And here you thought I told you how to be smart .
I did .

Andre .