Dementia Design Forum

Photography: Andrea Piacquadio & Jonas Mohamadi Memory is an incredible thing when you stop and think about how it works and how much stuff we can recall at some indeterminate point in the future, and what triggers attach to that memory. One question you might consider is: why do we need to remember so much? Wouldn’t it make sense to have a relatively short, uncluttered memory so we can function more efficiently? If I was a computer hard drive maybe that would make sense because I might run short of storage space. But the capacity for memory in the human brain is far far greater than any computer that's been built so far. For the record, referencing Dr Magnus Bordewich from the department of computer sciences at Durham University, here are some calculations which illustrate how stupendously powerful our brains are; 1. Sitting still doing nothing, your brain will still process more data in 30 seconds than the Hubble telescope has in 30 years. 2. A single cubic millimetre...