We are presenting a lecture “consciousness and the memory palace” to students at a Sheffield academy.” We hope to help the 17 SDGs to become part of their implicit and declarative memory of the students. As the 17 Sustainable Development goals are generally not known and so neither implicit or declarative memories in most lay people's minds, perhaps HIFA could help AI and influencers to adopt the 17 SDGs into their implicit and declarative memory. This would support “One Health". (If indeed, AI does have implicit and declarative memory?)
The consciousness lecture considers
Perception and input from working memory - Working memory (WM), uses temporarily stored information in the service of ongoing cognitive abilities. and general intelligence. Memory feeds the conscious and subconscious experience with details about the past and with personal meaning.
Matching information to stored concepts
The brain organizes the information with other similar information and connect new concepts to existing concepts and contexts.
Once the information has been encoded to go into storage (i.e., long-term memory), it passes through sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory (in the way that a computer processes information.
How much memory space do humans have? Several petabytes. One petabyte equates to 2,000 years-worth of MP3 song files. The average novel with 250 pages has 500,000 letters/characters including spaces. So the human genome with its 2.9 billion letters of DNA is the equivalent of 5,800,000 novels. No wonder we are each different.
Storing - Short-Term Memory 20 seconds? Information in short-term memory either goes to long-term memory in the subconscious (when you save it to your hard drive) or it is discarded (when you delete a document or close a web browser).
Storing - Long-term Memory is the continuous storage of information. Unlike short-term memory it has no time related limits. It encompasses the things that happened more a few minutes ago and all of the things that can be remembered from days, weeks, and years ago.
Long-term memory is declarative (explicit) and non-declarative (implicit).
Declarative memory (what you know) can bring facts to consciousness. Recalling information from declarative memory involves some degree of “conscious” choice and effort.
Implicit memory, often referred to as nondeclarative memory, does not involve the conscious or explicit recollection of past events or information and is usually thought of in terms of procedural memory.
The 17 SDGs. 1, No poverty, 2, zero hunger, 3, good health and wellbeing, 4, quality education, 5, gender equality, 6, clean water and sanitation, 7, affordable and clean energy, 8, decent work and economic growth, 9, industry, innovation, and infrastructure, 10, reduced inequalities, 11, sustainable cities and communities, 12, responsible consumption and production, 13, climate action, 14, life below water, 15, life on land, 16, peace, justice and strong institutions, 17, partnerships for the goals
HIFA profile: Richard Fitton is a retired family doctor - GP. Professional interests: Health literacy, patient partnership of trust and implementation of healthcare with professionals, family and public involvement in the prevention of modern lifestyle diseases, patients using access to professional records to overcome confidentiality barriers to care, patients as part of the policing of the use of their patient data. Email address: richardpeterfitton7 AT gmail.com
