>
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > On the other hand, he lacks other abilities that
> > > average people have. Maybe the brain has "room"
> > > for only so many abilities, and average people have
> > > more abilities but each ability is allotted a smaller
> > > portion of the brain's capacity, compared to the
> > > larger portions of Peake's brain allotted to each of
> > > his smaller number of abilities?
> > >
> > > Did that make any sense?? It's sort of like a
> > > library with a limited amount of shelf space. It
> > > can have books on a wide range of books, with only
> > > a few on each topic; or it can specialize in only
> > > a few topics and have lots of books on each.
> > >
> >
> > It's more like the brain is a network of computers dedicated to
> specific tasks. While any
> > arbitrary computer might be able to take over some part of the tasks
> of an adjacent
> > computer, the most efficient way to go is to use the dedicated unit.
> If a given unit is really
> > large, it can do its task really well, but there's only so much
> physical space available in
> > your head, so if there's a larger-than-average unit there, there's
> bound to be one or more
> > smaller-than-average units also, and if they're too small, they
> can't do their assigned task
> > very well. If they don't exist, some other unit has to take over,
> with drastically reduced
> > efficiency.
> >
> +++ That looks like a good analogy but I would wonder if a person who
> continues to be able to memorize books and supposedly doesn't have a
> seperation of brain hemispheres would be likely to run out of space.
> I would be willing to bet he has more available space on his hard
> drive than your Mac quad core. N.
>
Memory space probably is NEVER an issue in a healthy brain. Ability to ACCESS the
memories is another issue. I was talking about the functioning of the various parts of the
brain, not specific memories or the space they take up.
Has there been brain imaging done on this guy's brain? Any description online of the
results?
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