[bryanrasmussen]

>Human brains are not evolved to handle a million years of noise and notifications.

Are you sure? I mean it could be argued we're not evolved to handle 50 years of noise and notifications given that we do not keep all that data but forget quite a bit of it. But then the response is that we handle it by forgetting it - what's the proof that the mechanisms that allow us to handle 50 years by forgetting will cease to work with significantly more data?

[kisna72]

Right, I think human brain forgets most of the things anyways, so I don't see why it'd not continue forgetting old memories over time!

[bryanrasmussen]

Well I can make a hypothesis that the human brain will not be able to easily forget centuries worth of memories given the thing that after a certain age people often report having clearer memories of longer ago events than newer ones and that these memories will come back to them periodically, will over time the long term memories be filled up?

my personal feeling would be no, you will keep getting that memory of the person you liked in high school when you're 600 but your probably won't remember anything particularly clearly past 20 years before and the stuff from your 70s-80s will be totally gone.