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| Feb 1, 2016 at 2:54 | comment | added | user60302 | You have the eastern Europe concept of "the ultimate reality," have you not? Does that imply a level of Reality upon which other "reality" is based? If so, does this imply that It need not be subject to such limiting universal functions as time? If so, could this further imply that the concepts of "beginning" and "end" need not apply to It? If so, what is the 'It" behind that "Reality" that enables this to be so? India calls It "Brahma," implying a Being supreme above all others. Beings--at least intelligent ones--tend to possess wills. If such a Being exists, whatever Its name, how do we know | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 20:59 | comment | added | Brian S | @Lexible, no you're not describing constant rate of decay. By using the term "half life", you are describing exponential rate of decay. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 19:55 | comment | added | Lexible | @BrianS If there is a quantity of memory, then yes, when half those memories are irretrievably forgotten, that is the half-life of that quantity of memories. It may be that different factors (i.e. nature of memory, age of memory, emotional valence of memory, physiological changes, etc.) alter the rate of decay (i.e. I am not suggesting there is a constant rate of decay), but there most certainly is a half life. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 12:45 | answer | added | PopularIsn'tRight | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 14:22 | comment | added | Brian S | @Lexible, Memory doesn't have a "half life" (there isn't some interval during which you lose half your memories), but that doesn't mean memories don't degrade. Human memory is actually quite unreliable, even within a relatively short time after the event. The mind quickly loses details, but fills in the gaps with the gist of things. You might forget which hitters made single-base plays during a specific game, you might even forget the final score, but you'll probably remember that your team won and that you had a good time. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 23:10 | comment | added | Izkata | The Prophets had no conception of death before The Sisko, either | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 23:09 | comment | added | James Sheridan | Every time I learn something new, it pushes one of the old memories out. Remember that time I took the wine-tasting class and forgot how to drive? | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 22:20 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 21:04 | comment | added | user30592 | Ok, we agree. Memory fades. I guess I just see Nagilum as being "above" losing memories due to its extremely powerful status. I'd also find it surprising if a Douwd, Organian, Metron, Trelane, etc., claimed to forget something. (I know what half-life means, but that's not the exact term you wanted, of course.) | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 21:02 | comment | added | Lexible | I have an excellent long term memory. It provokes comments of astoundment from those who know me. Dates of events from years ago pop into my head. And yet: memory fades. Perhaps your would find the phrase memory decays (inexorably) more palatable than memory has a half-life (I think you do not understand what "half-life" means: read up on the half-lives of plutonium and cesium-134). Have you never forgoten something? | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 20:58 | comment | added | user30592 | I am not aware of the "half-life" term concerning human memory capacity. Some people have excellent memories. Others, not so much. If this "half-life" concept were true then I shouldn't have any memories of things that occurred years ago. And yet I do. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 20:55 | comment | added | Lexible | If you think human memory does not have a half-life I have a bridge to sell you... | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 20:54 | comment | added | user30592 | I guess that's possible. But Nagilum seemed so advanced and it just seems unlikely that it'd have a "flaw" in its mind that humans, Klingons, and Bolians do not. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 20:53 | comment | added | Lexible | Or perhaps its memory has a half-life and Nagilum forgot what death was and meant. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 20:51 | history | asked | user30592 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |