In contrast, the Human brain can continually learn and incorporate new information, over the whole of it's "defect free" lifetime.

In my personal experience at least, at my age, incorporating new information seems to be at the expense of loosing old stuff... so potentially no net gain.

   - Andy.

Hello Andy:

I am probably the oldest member on this thread, so as indicated in yesterdays Guardian (there was an article about getting feedback about aging from old folk) , you don't have to believe them when they talk about aging:-

As I get older the problem is not losing old stuff, it's that more time is needed to recall pieces of the data.

I will give you an example - Mike Lynch death this week on his boat reminded me of the death of Maxwell on this boat - tied indirectly to Prince Andrew. I could not remember Maxwell's first name (Robert) until 2 hour later when it just dropped into my main memory.

Peter Brooks

Palm Bay 

Hello Andy:

I am probably the oldest member on this thread, so as indicated in yesterdays Guardian (there was an article about getting feedback about aging from old folk) , you don't have to believe them when they talk about aging:-

As I get older the problem is not losing old stuff, it's that more time is needed to recall pieces of the data.

I will give you an example - Mike Lynch death this week on his boat reminded me of the death of Maxwell on this boat - tied indirectly to Prince Andrew. I could not remember Maxwell's first name (Robert) until 2 hour later when it just dropped into my main memory.

Peter Brooks

Palm Bay