New2view's Blog   Life on The Blue Marble

Our human brain is very far beyond AI or any man made computer.

No computer generated intelligence could begin to equal the ability of the human brain to remember and identify specific sights, sounds, smells, touches, and feelings, to name just a few examples.

For instance I have a distinct memory of the ‘smell of newly applied road tar’ recently applied to our East side street when I was about 7 years old. It was when, with slightly older cousins as we were walking down the middle of 22nd street in East Vancouver between my home and theirs, completely unconcerned due to very little side street traffic in 1940’s mind you, more than 70 years ago!

Indeed, at that time, on that day, I received an epiphany as we walked along, my youngest cousin Jim, a year or two older, quite seriously divulged shocking newly acquired knowledge, namely; where baby’s come from!  Of course I strongly disagreed, and the subject was soon forgotten.

Just a poignant childhood memory, true. Yet a simple example of the superior capacity of our superbly created human brain to store even subtle sensual memories, perhaps forever!