# Do We Have Any Idea What Might Happen When The Human Brain Reaches Its "Memory Limit?"

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**Created:** [July 2, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-idea-what-might-happen-when-the-human-brain-reaches-its-memory-limit/967273 "2022-07-02T00:06:37Z")\
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Is this concurrent thread a coincidence?

> [@Perfect memory...at a high price](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-memory-at-a-high-price/967276):
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> Premise: A new process allows you to have a perfect memory…but only for a period of forty years. You remember everything for the last forty years, but all names, faces, books, movies and music is wiped from before then to make room. Every day you live is remembered perfectly, but for every day remembered a day is forgotten from the back end. BTW, your life is extended so that will live to at least 100, barring accidents or mayhem. Would you undergo this process?

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