Samantha Atkins writes:
> I do remember back that far. Not remembering that is not a universal
> trait.
I would not put any faith in fidelity of such supposed reminiscences,
as (told in a recent paper which name I can't recall) adults tend to
confabulate childhood memories. I've always suspected that much, but
it's nice to see it proven -- hopefully, I haven't confabulated that
paper, too ;)
Lucky modern kids, they can record every single minute of their lives,
in principle. The technology is there, albeit still a bit expensive
and cumbersome.
> Nope. The gap between human adult and SI is many orders of magnitude
> greater. But I don't see a sound argument here for assuming that the SI
> could not understand in principle.
Probably, for the same reason we can understand a virus, at least in
principle, if knowing its and it's context's full molecular structure.
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