Timeline for Why does Data not notice the intruder?
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| Jan 8, 2023 at 22:00 | comment | added | Karl | The amount of information needed to store the position and rather accurate description of posture and outer appearance of every person in such a fixed scene is minute. | |
| Apr 30, 2018 at 22:57 | comment | added | JAB | @Ellesedil And even if Data does notice everything, that doesn't mean he couldn't have had a sensor glitch that caused him to not observe the Romulan standing there before. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 20:58 | comment | added | Ellesedil | @HighInBC: You've essentially just said, "Some random person A noticed something that random person B did not." That happens all the time because everyone thinks and prioritizes information differently. There's also a really high chance that Geordi wouldn't have normally noticed the misplaced Romulan. After all, Troi didn't notice he had moved. But Geordi did happen to notice... most probably because he had to now avoid him to reach the console. Your premise is that Data should notice everything which is straight-up impossible. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 20:32 | comment | added | HighInBC | @Ellesedil Geordi noticed something was odd without an infinite amount of calculations. Data has been generally shown to be far more observant than others. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 4:15 | comment | added | Ellesedil | @HighInBC: So, what you're actually saying is that Data should be able to perfectly recall and interpret every single thing that occurs around him at all times? Data would need hardware resources that support an infinite amount of calculations for any given time frame in order to be able to interpret and extrapolate tangential conclusions from every single thing his senses tell him in real-time, along with an infinite amount of data storage to remember those things. That is simply not feasible. | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 5:40 | comment | added | HighInBC | I think this answer is wrong. Data should have noticed, it is a plot hole. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 0:51 | comment | added | Lexible | @T-1000 Kyle Jones gave a great answer. If you reflect that there are literally infinite ways to create 'facts' out of sense data (as the example of # of nose scratches since stardate BLAH BLAH BLAH shows; what about scratches longer than X duration? What about clockwise scratches? Etc.), and there's only finite working memory, finite processing memory, and finite processing power, Data must have perceptual filters. He may have better access to eidetic memory, but he is not "perfectly" aware of the things he senses. He cannot be. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 23:41 | comment | added | Kyle Jones | @Izkata Tainer performed complex calculations without the use of the computer first. That got Data's attention and he was watching for unusual behavior after that. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 23:24 | comment | added | Izkata | Data recognized Juliana Tainer's true identity through doing exactly that, though | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 22:10 | comment | added | user30592 | I always thought Data had no need for any sort of recall; when speaking to Admiral McCoy, Data states that he remembers every fact that he's exposed to. I figured that with his mind, Data could recall trivial details about a situation as easily as important ones, but perhaps I was wrong. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 21:30 | history | answered | Kyle Jones | CC BY-SA 3.0 |