Human beings have the greatest memory capacity among living beings. Which has been a decisive fact in the technological development of our species.
By Javier Martín for ThinkBig. Perhaps human beings created machines in their image and likeness, as if it were a biblical text. Or perhaps ancient men simply designed their objects or tools, current technology after all, with the aim of making life more comfortable. Without any pretension of comparison of substance or form.
The only certainty we have is that the technology has been created. It has not emerged ex nihilo from nature, but rather we have been the ones who, thanks to the development of civilization millennia after millennium, have been able to conceive what we now consider as the future.
Within this creative dialectic, human beings have been accumulating millions of data. Information that we have been storing in our own natural repository called the brain. An organ that is always awake, where millions of cells, in this case called neurons, connect with each other at the speed of light in order to create connections between equals to generate memories or memories.
The human capacity for memory
Human memory, like that of machines, can be measured. Not in an exact way like these, but approximate. The human being is capable of storing around 100 terabytes of memory, or what is the same as 100,000 gigabytes of memories, experiences, knowledge, etc. All of them embedded in our heads thanks to the aforementioned neurons.
One of the most important issues with this “animal feat” is the terminology we have used. How the language that was initially established as technological or scientific has transcended its meaning and has gone from occupying strictly technical places to becoming used as a concept within social environments such as those that designate ideas about memories and memory .
Therefore, the main idea is that, how nomenclature and language itself, inherent to human beings, have been able to unite precepts, in this case nature and technology. Or what is the same, blurring even more the fine line between creations and creators.
