Ask HN: Counting every unique sight in a lifetime
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I bet we don’t forget most of them because they are not being remembered to begin with.
I think we only short-long term remember something we put our aware attention to, at least for a moment.
The details of our memories are reconstructed, not recalled from some storage.
Afaik. I am not a neuroscientist )
I think we only short-long term remember something we put our aware attention to, at least for a moment.
The details of our memories are reconstructed, not recalled from some storage.
Afaik. I am not a neuroscientist )
Does each leave of trees count as a different one?
When you eat chicken, do you count the chicken or each bone?
When you eat chicken, do you count the chicken or each bone?
While there is some work done on how much of it can we remember at a given time, do you wonder how big our entire visual vocabulary be if we count every object, face, place (any subject that can be uniquely, visually memorized - physical or digital) that falls before our eyes, and sum up the count over our lifetimes ?
This will vary between people and their environments, but I am still amazed by the potential size of this passive count of subjects that we process visually, even tough we may forget much of it.
How would one go about estimating an approximate range of total things that we see in our lives? It'd be our personal visual entropy vs others.