Posted on 01/20/2014 2:51:32 PM PST by Sir Napsalot
The brains of older people only appear to slow down because they have so much information to compute, much like a full-up hard drive, scientists believe.
Older people do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains, scientists believe.
Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full up, so to (sic) do humans take longer to access information, it has been suggested.
Researchers say this slowing down it is not the same as cognitive decline.
“The human brain works slower in old age,” said Dr. Michael Ramscar, “but only because we have stored more information over time
“The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more.”
A team at Tübingen University in Germany programmed a computer to read a certain amount each day and learn new words and commands.
When the researchers let a computer “read” only so much, its performance on cognitive tests resembled that of a young adult.
But if the same computer was exposed to the experiences we might encounter over a lifetime – with reading simulated over decades – its performance now looked like that of an older adult.
Often it was slower, but not because its processing capacity had declined. Rather, increased “experience” had caused the computer’s database to grow, giving it more data to process – which takes time.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I congratulate Dr. Cramrats for finally coming to his senses on this issue, whatever it was.
It should be more like “remembering important principles.”
The top one being that the Lord cares about us and wants to be exalted among us. Once you have that organizing principle, everything else falls in step. The REASON for this life certainly matters to how to carry it out, dig?
(And in addition to benefiting minds, it brings literally supernatural blessings.)
There is one instance I know of where an older woman effectively reached a “disk full” error, and went into a mental standby mode while “data was being erased”, went the conjecture.
She was grocery shopping at the time, and had picked up a frozen turkey to read its label, when she mentally shut down. The better part of an hour later, a store employee noticed her standing there rigidly, with a defrosting turkey in her hands. When she was unresponsive he summoned help.
They remove the turkey from her hands which remained outstretched, and carried her, by shoulders and feet out the door to a bench while waiting for the paramedics to arrive. Before they arrived she woke up and asked what she was doing there.
All her vital signs were normal, but the paramedics transported her to a hospital where she tested negative for a stroke or heart attack, and otherwise felt fine.
All you young whipper snappers one word for you WAIT.
My wife and I were watching Star Trek VI a couple of months ago. I asked her to take a long hard look at the President and asked her to identify the actor.
She thought it was the guy that played “Hunter” ... Fred Dryer ...
I was baffled ... we both were about 9 or 10 years old when that show aired ...
Hey, you stole MY line!
(Actually, my line is: "My brain is like a 10 MB HD (FAT formatting) that has not been defragged in 66 years. It is running on a 8088 CPU with 64K RAM")
Kurtwood Smith is one of those well known actors that nobody knows his name.
After I retired, I went to a club we had in that subdivision and the subdivision was around a lake and many retired people went there to live. The retired people in the club would tell me “what they used to be”. After I left there the first time I heard that, I vowed I would never tell someone what I “used” to be, I would tell them what I am doing “now”, what my goals are now.
I was running the security gate at that place and an ambulance came through and drove around and around trying to find the house. I left and bought a scanner and put it at the gate so the guard would hear when an ambulance was coming in and I had that person make copies of the map in there so he/she could circle the house where the ambulance needed to go and hand the ambulance a copy when they came in and give copies to fire truck and police.
Then, I realized that volunteer ambulance was just that - volunteer and they might get there in 30 minutes or never if there was no one to drive the ambulance. So, in my sixties, I went to EMT school and I was the oldest one in the class but made the highest score on the state test. The instructor told his wife if he had an emergency, for her to call me before she called the ambulance for him.
The security gate would then call me, now a licensed EMT, when he/she head a 911 call from our subdivision and I would go there and provide care, get vital signs on paper and get insurance information so when the ambulance got there, they could load and go.
I am 80 and there is nothing I can't learn right now. My brain works every day to solve the world's problems and prepper problems and political problems and household problems, etc... In my 70s, I traveled Texas and taught Texas Election Law to lawyers and county chairman and taught at least a thousand election judges.
Just use your brain all the time and it will work. If you don't use it, it's like everything else - if you don't use your muscles, you will get to the point you can't walk.
Don't give up on your brain just because you have lived a long time. I will never do that, and besides, I'm running for Miss America when I'm 100.
I still remember all of it, ...I just have a tough time communicating that information from my brain,...impeded by all the drool in my elderly sinuses
I could probably use an upgrade of my I/O.
Casually, a larger cache is exactly what you don’t want here. This problem is similar to why we don’t make caches as large as possible, even if money is no concern: a large cache means more complex, slower search algorithms.
Pinging you to my post 68. I know you will keep using your excellent brain.
D A M N E D S T R A I G H T !
I still get excited when I see a beautiful woman, but I can’t remember why, however, I am now going to act on it, in the event that it will come back to me before I have to act on it.. :)
Actually I discovered that the human brain works on the atomic level in the quantum area. Everything of energy, including brain energy, is quantum like bunches of grapes.
Thus in order to remember names of women, I do not picture then as single ladies but as a bunch of grapes. Thus I would place three blondes I know in a bunch of grapes or quantum of their common features linked by common location, e.g., supermarket employee etc.
-Then I memorize only names in the group by one trait only -no pics
- only two are are linked by traits
e.g. Jill =glasses
Carly=short hair
Shanna = no traits
thus if she doesn`t wear glasses and has long blond hair it`s
SHANNA.
This can be done for all kinds of situations.
Secondly, the audio memory is on the short circuit side of the brain- that means that you can memorize where you put things by repeating the object and location over about 10 times with a picture of the location.[Like teaching a computer voice command]
e.g. “I put the rocket launcher on the washing machine”
memorize= rocket washer, rocket washer ten times-
see no problem.
Bflr, if I remember.
Appreciated.
Ask Kerry if his old buddies in Vietnam forgot. Ask the 30+ survivors if they will forget.
I worship the quicksand she walks on. And I hope she hits the next banana peel soon.
Wait, what was the question.
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