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"Storing memory in wave interference patterns is remarkably efficient, and would account for the vastness of human memory. Waves can hold unimaginable quantities of data - far more than the 280 quintillion (280,000,000,000,000,000,000) bits of information which supposedly constitute the average human memory accumulated through an average lifespan.'8 It's been said that with holographic wave-interference patterns, all of the US Library of Congress, which contains virtually every book ever published in English, would fit onto a large sugar cube." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Studies of human memory tell me that your accuracy rises when you assess peaks. Zooming in provides a more accurate assessment. But it's not for the fainthearted. It takes time, lots of time. More like an hour instead of a minute. That said, I suggest you consider undertaking this more intensive and accurate method of calculating your positivity ratio from time to time, perhaps once before you start making changes in your life, and then again several months later. Think of it like going to the doctor for a full physical exam instead of simply weighing yourself again on your own bathroom scale." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Like our forebears, we still look at the vagaries of global climate through the narrow blinkers of human memory and the experience of a few generations. This is hardly surprising, since accurate meteorological records are a mere 150 years long in Europe and much shorter in many other parts of the world. Even rudimentary studies of global climate date back little more than three centuries." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Waves can hold unimaginable quantities of data - far more than the 280 quintillion (280,000,000,000,000,000,000) bits of information which supposedly constitute the average human memory accumulated through an average lifespan.'8 It's been said that with holographic wave-interference patterns, all of the US Library of Congress, which contains virtually every book ever published in English, would fit onto a large sugar cube.,Q The holographic model would also account for the instant recall of memory, often as a three-dimensional image." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Eating Soya improves human memory. Psychopharmacology 157(4):430-436. 2001. Finkel E. Phyto-oestrogens: the way to postmenopausal health? Lance? 352(9142): 1762. 1998. Gaddi A, Descovich GC, Noseda G, et al: Hypercholesterolemia treated by Soybean protein diet. Arch Dis Child 62(3):274-278. 1987. Geller J, Sionit L, Partido C, et al: Genistein inhibits the growth of human-patient BPH and prostate cancer histoculture. Prostate 34(2):75-79. 1998. Gentile MG, Fellin G, Cofano F, et al: Treatment of proteiuric patients with a vegetarian Soy diet and fish oil. Clin Nephrol 40(6):315-320. 1993." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"The strong representation of birth in our unconscious psyche comes as a great surprise for mainstream psychologists, psychiatrists, and neurophysiologists because it challenges their deeply ingrained assumptions about the limits of human memory. However, closer examination reveals that these assumptions are unfounded beliefs that are in sharp conflict with scientific facts. According to the traditional psychiatric view, only birth that is so difficult that it causes irreversible damage to the brain cells can have psychological and psychopathological consequences." - Stanislav Grof, When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Reality (Get the book.)

"Notice that the question here is not whether human memory is always reliable, or even trustworthy most of the time. Most of us will admit that memory is not the dependable thing it purports sometimes to be. Memory is the thing you forget with. • Alexander Chase But our question is not whether memory is infallible or even mostly reliable. The skeptic wants to know whether human memory is ever reliable at all. This may seem like a silly question to ask. But watch what happens when we try to answer. How do I know that memory is ever reliable?" - Tom Morris, Philosophy for Dummies (Get the book.)

"India from human memory.... The reconstruction of the history and the realities... of the ancient India... we have to rely on the reports of the Greek geographers and Arab travellers... there isn't a single Indian source that would equal the reports of the foreigners in value". ([433], page 180). Thus, the Scaligerian history of India is wholly dependent on the consensual chronology of Rome and Greece and will have to be reconstructed in turn. Historians characterize the dynastic history of India thusly: "The names of individual kings are obscured by the quaint haze of legends." - Anatoly Fomenko, History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2 (Get the book.)

"In fact, the latest evidence suggests that human memory approaches 100 percent retention. We remember potentially everything. Yet most of those memories lie so deep in the unconscious that, until quite recently, psychologists had no means of retrieving them other than inducing a profound hypnotic trance. Figure 1.1 Most people can pay conscious attention to only 126 bits of information per second. Listening to another person talk takes up 40 bits per second, leaving only 86 bits to process other sensory input, such as looking at the person's face." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.) "Although sometimes embarrassing, spectacular cryp-tomnesic feats such as Nietzsche's raise provocative questions about the power of human memory. If an entire passage of a book can be absorbed at age eleven and then be recited intact decades later, what else might be stored in our brains? And how can we retrieve it? THE MEMORY BARRIER "Education," Albert Einstein once remarked, "is that which remains, after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.)

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