If you remember too many passwords, will your brain have less hard drive space for memories?

Answer 1

No,Actually the more you use your brain to remember things the better it (your memory) gets. You see the more you use your brain cells the more they duplicate,and you become smarter,and things like your memory improve a tremendous amount. Therefore you're brain has more capacity to hold things,because you use it more. Which also leads to your brain cells working faster,quicker,speedier. Also reading a lot helps.
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Answer 2

Your brain will have less space for other passwords or similar things. I used a piece of software called SuperMemo for quite a while to learn Spanish. It is very powerful but I found that after I had learnt about 17,000 words very well, it was harder and harder to learn new stuff. This is because similar words interfere with each other. E.g. desatarse = to come undone, to get loose, to break, deshacerse = to come undone, to melt. My mind would get confused between them. It would remember desatarse but not deshacerse. Then it would remember deshacerse but not desatarse. Then I would learn a new word like deshacer = to untie, to unpack, to melt, to unpick and I would forget the first 2. The more you learn the more likely interference between different memories becomes.

But I agree with the first 2 people as well. Memory is like a muscle. If you memorise a list then you are exercising that muscle, and you will be quicker at memorising a different list in the future.

Answer 3

Actually, I learned the opposite is true. The more we use our brain to learn, the more synapses we form on the neurons responsible for memory, and this increases the capacity we have to remember more. To improve our brain's capacity, we can focus on using it more. There are several ways to do this. Here are some examples: use your non-dominant hand to control your mouse, break routines by shopping at a different grocery store (especially ones totally different than the one(s) you may shop at now), try new recipes, think of phone numbers before using your speed dial, learn how to use chopsticks with your other hand, read more ... anything really -- the content isn't important for developing and strengthening neural connections. If you enjoy puzzles, try Sudokus, brain teasers, free online IQ tests (ignore the results and don't pay for them!). Also, when you have free time, try and do simple multiplications (like 13 X 15) in your head, or serially subtract 7 from 101, or 885 (without using "tricks").

At a cellular level, doing this will cause neurons to branch out and form new neuronal connections and strengthen existing ones. The total number of cerebral neurons actually decreases with age (we have the highest number of neurons as babies), but our ability to learn increases despite this because each neuron (in the cortex) forms thousands of connections (some more than 10,000) with other ones, so our capacity to learn and remember has way more to do with the number of synaptic connections than the absolute number of cerebral neurons.

If we were to do the opposite and "conserve" our hard drive space, the neuronal branches we would otherwise continue to develop as the result of day-to-day experience could eventually "shrivel up" from under usage into skinny "twigs," and our capacity to absorb and retain information drops off. We want thick, "bushy" neuronal processes and want to prevent as much "pruning" (which is a natural process that occurs when we don't exercise our minds).

Answer 4

Scientists say human brain can hold 2 million independent facts . Passwords should not encroach upon your hard disc