Something just occurred to me. We assume time passes from the past to the future. and that we remember things in the past. Altogether I can recall about 200 things from before the age of 5 as can my wife. Many cannot.
What if this is all an illusion? Perhaps every time we wake we think we have lived in the past but our brains have a finite memory that is in the here and now and not in the past? What I am wondering is time really there at all? We think we have a past, present and future, but this could all be an illusion.
In the world of quantum mechanics we have come to realise that things are stranger than we think. There is so much we do not know.
All we can do is keep an open mind and realise our brainpower is very limited. I wonder what our memory capacity has been estimated as? I imagine it must be well in the TB region and probably much much bigger.
UPDATE 1230z: Googled it! Estimated as 2.5 million Gigabytes. Huge! I wonder what the biggest super-computers in the world have by way of memory. As memory increases I wonder what will be possible in 20 years' time.
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