Memory and or the lack there of. . .

It is from an E-mail written by Steve from Nashville (29:56). He wrote in about whether Google.com is makeing us dumber because we don't have to remember anything. He didn't think that memory equals Intelligence (I have used Dictionary.com 2 times in this post to spell correctly). Quote by einstein: "Never memorize what you can look up in books." The story behind that being that someone asked him to recite some well known formula, and he couldn't to it. People were shocked, but he said why clutter up his brain when he knew exactly where to find it? So end result you are rembering where to find things rahter then things themselves. I feel that our brains are in fact a giant database. Personaly I love databases and program them for fun for anything.

Neat.... Brain can only handle so much information I would suppose.
You'll be much more efficient if you store that information some where else and just remember where to find it, brilliant point!

Google Assisted Memory.

love it

I wonder when the time when man travels to other planets/solar systems reguarly if that will still be the case..

I mean we are loosing the ways to do things simply, there are some manufaturing techniques that will be lost in such a long time

On a previous episode (am at work, and don't archive them on my IPOD) it was mentioned that they were thinking of a new "Heads Up" display that would record what your eyes saw and store it in a database. It sounded almost like a second memory of sorts, as there was facial regocnition software at use so that when you walked up to someone it would list things about them. This would be an ultimate hybred for memory upgrades, as if implemented as said in the show, in a contact, you wouldn't need to rember things anymore. At that point you would than delve into a diffrant area, what is intelligence anyway

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/07/012207 -

<i>The real problem with singularity is that it implicitly assumes that the intelligence of various entities forms a totally ordered set and that we will soon discover or create some superior intelligence. That kind of a claim needs evidence and we have none. And on top of that we display a significant cognitive bias while looking at intelligence. An octopus's intelligence might be better than ours at the ocean's floor. As a species, our intelligence might be lower than that of chimpanzees (they didn't cause global warming). Can we compare human intelligence to that of HIV? To that of T-Rex? What does intelligence mean? Whatever it is, we don't seem to have objective criteria for defining it. We just seem to be content with some circular definitions that use human intelligence itself as the prototype and then claim that our intelligence is superior. That and the evidence-less concept of a total order in intelligence lies at the heart of "singularity".
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</b>Above info found on orginal post.

The argument is as stated above completly diffrent from the orginal of memory itself.

22:58 - Memory and intelligence

Hey guys,

Memory is indeed part of intelligence and necessary for it. The WAIS (a standard IQ test) has a digit span component, in which the subject must repeat back a series of digits to the test administrator. This measures short term memory (more specifically the phonological loop part of working memory). This is what most people think of as memory of course.

That said, the ability to know how to look something up, or where to look, or even what search terms to use in Google (or ask.com if you are a mom....) is also stored in memory. This is a different sort of memory, memory for facts about the world. This is called semantic memory, and is implicit (it just sort of happens, you are not aware that you are using memory). On an interesting side note, researchers have found that people with higher IQs actually show less brain activity when solving a problem than those with lower IQs. Perhaps this shows that intelligence is also about efficiency.

Dave (the psychologist) - http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-11455_7-9888687-10.html?tag=more

(Molly, I couldn't transcribe this you talk VERY fast. Glad that was in show notes.)

This could explain why (and yes I know this is a "game") on Brain Age ( www.brainage.com ) has a large memory componet to it. I only have the first one, but one of the major tests that you do repeatedly is see how many words you can remember in 2 minutes. There is also one where you are shown a starting number of people, than have to track them as some leave and enter a "house" that blacks out the number left on screen. That employes memory as well as addition and subtraction on the fly. I fell that I am in fact "smarter" doing these simple exercises.

I felt I had to mention these things after I heard the latest episode.