> From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That's true. The visual perception process is altered after the > experiment to > favor recognition of objects seen in the photos. A recall test doesn't > measure this effect. I don't know of a good way to measure the quantity > of > information learned. >
When you learn something is it stored as electrical state or are molecules created? Perhaps precise measurements of particular chemicals in certain regions could correlate to data differential. A problem though is that the data may be spread over a wide region making it difficult to measure. And you'd have to be able to measure chemicals in tissue structure though software could process out the non-applicable. Also you could estimate by calculating average data intake and estimate what is thrown away. So many bits are consumed, so many are tossed, the rest is stored, independent of recall. But a curious number in addition to average long term memory storage is MIPS. How many actual bit flips are occurring? This is where you have to be precise as even trace chemicals, light, temperature, effect this number. Though just a raw number won't tell you that much compared to say spatiotemporal MIPS density graphs. John ------------------------------------------- singularity Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/11983/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=96140713-a54b2b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
