Eric:
Yes. An electronic mind need never forget important facts. It'd enjoy instant recall and on-demand instantaneous binary-precision arithmetic and all the other upshots of the substrate. On the other hand it couldn't take, say, morphine!
It would though, presumably, have major problems handling the amounts of information, if it had perfect recall - & would have a problem deciding what were important facts.
These wild non-human speculations *are* in fact useful, I think - because they help you realise the advantages of the human system, imperfect (in this case forgetful) as it seems.
We obviously *can* give AGI's supersenses - X-ray vision, for example - but then comes the problem of how would you integrate this with its other senses, (how would you alternate it with normal vision), and process its info. so as to be generally available ?
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