Research indicates that brainspace isn't limited.
I suspected you would say so, as this is thought to be common knowledge. I'd like to see what this kind of research would even look like.
If brainspace isn't limited, then why do people forget things? Does it make evolutionary sense? There are many examples of people with exceptional memories, who are severely limited otherwise. I'm not sure I've come across of examples of people who are proven to remember everything but are otherwise normal. Then again, the speed at which such an anomaly of a person learns things is probably a lot faster than a normal individual can learn with Anki, so maybe it's not an issue.
Also memory interference could become a problem with huge Anki decks.
On the contary, saving a lot of information in your brain makes it less likely that you will get Alzheimer's.
This might be true. I've also learned it's possible that education doesn't prevent the degenerative process, but helps you cope with it longer.
I suspected you would say so, as this is thought to be common knowledge. I'd like to see what this kind of research would even look like.
It the academic consensus as far as I know, and I visited neuroscience university lectures. I'm not particularly big on the detail but the gist is that there's no sign of brainspace limitation found anywhere.
If brainspace isn't limited, then why do people forget things? Does it make evolutionary sense?
People don't really forget. They fail to remember. Most of the information is accessible via hypnosis.
Our brain is ...
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