Memory

The quality of memory is very important to the study of knowledge. Brains are not very precise in their memory of data, information, or the resulting knowledge. If you try and remember a picture of the house you grew up in, you will find the image considerably compressed. Type SE image data is very complex and the brain would waste a lot of energy if it had to store every bit of data to remember images. If you think about early images in your life you may find them in black and white rather than color and the resolution is very poor. Then if you go to an old photo album and look at the picture you remembered you will see a much clearer image. This way you can compare your remembered image to the real image and understand the difference. This quality or memory issue really comes into play when you have an 'eye witness' to a crime that is expected to remember a face that they had only seen briefly.

Memory is also a quality that sets humans apart form other species because we have learned to store our knowledge outside our brains as information in books and computers. As stated before information is a poor quality version of true knowledge because it is open to different interpretations. But, this ability to increase our memory capacity and its longevity is a huge improvement over trying to remember everything in the brain itself. Towards the end of this book you will learn about a new software tool called ISSU that will go beyond the use of information to an era where the memory of true knowledge can be stored outside the brain.

The types of knowledge presented in this chapter are just the basic few. More distinct types may be found in the future. The English language is a confusing mess of words with multiple definitions for the same word and multiple words with the same definitions. English also contains many recursive definitions that adds to the confusion and opens the door for false knowledge or nonsense to sneak in. It is very difficult to decide on which words are pure examples of the specific knowledge types but as we go forward the complete set will eventually be discovered. These knowledge types are fundamental to understanding how the software of the brain works. With the new Language of ISSU being developed the problems with English will disappear and computers and brains will work in harmony on a fundamental basis of true knowledge.