Re: Brain Question
Psychology usually refers to the brain's memory capacity as 'unlimited for all known purposes'.
Memory is subjective though, it is subject to change, situation dependant and it may be hard to recall. Usually it is referred to as a 'subjective representation of past events' and not actual representation. There is much research showing how memories change over time.
It is also common to separate the term memory into 'encoding', 'memory' and 'recall'. This gives a better view of how it works.
Encoding is putting things to memory, memory is the actual storage and recall is the process of getting it back from storage.
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