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I have entered this section of the forum and found references to Star Trek. This series once left me wondering. It was a chapter from the first era. Spok travels to the 1930s on Earth and his communicator breaks down. Asking, he manages to reach the laboratory of a scientist of 1930, who receives him very well and tries to help him as much as possible. The last step to communicate with the Enterprise is to improvise a memory that replaces the original memory of the communicator. In the midst of the noise at home, I thought I heard harmonic memory. I was stunned by surprise. This is advanced! , I thought. Of course, it is the only inexhaustible memory! What I thought I heard led to the idea of a memory based on the Fourier series. Two twin electronic oscillators connected to a mediating stage, designed to handle them and communicate with the system that needs a memory. The mediating stage converts each bit into an oscillatory signal of a certain frequency. No other bit can be converted to the same frequency.
We begin with empty harmonic memory. The first bit arrives, the mediating stage converts it into an oscillation and stores the waveform in oscillator A. The second bit arrives. The mediating stage converts it into an oscillation of another frequency, which is added with the oscillation of the first bit stored in A. The sum gives a waveform that is stored in oscillator B and is available A for the arrival of the third bit. The third bit is converted, added with the waveform in B and the sum is saved in A. The resulting waveform is increasingly complex, because it has more harmonic components. But if oscillators A and B are superlatively good, faithful and perfectly preserve the resulting waveform that is stored in each, there is no theoretical limit to the number of harmonic components that can be added. The theoretical limit is the square wave, which has infinite harmonics. So, in theory, a harmonic memory is capable of saving infinite bits. If A and B are perfect devices, that memory is inexhaustible. In a real harmonic memory A and B could not be perfect. But after many improvements, it can surpass all the other types of memories that have been invented until today.
Excited with the idea, I asked myself what possibility does human memory have of being harmonic and, perhaps, that A and B are not oscillators made of brain matter. That is, the wave functions of A and B are stored in fields located around the head and not inside.
Years later I saw the same chapter for the second time, in a quieter environment. What Spok says is not harmonic memory. It is mnemonic memory, which does not inspire the same thing and which is a redundant phrase, because in Greek mnemos means memoryonic. It's like saying memory memoryonic. A dullness.
This is the anecdote of a chapter of Star Trek looked one day that there was noise at home.
We begin with empty harmonic memory. The first bit arrives, the mediating stage converts it into an oscillation and stores the waveform in oscillator A. The second bit arrives. The mediating stage converts it into an oscillation of another frequency, which is added with the oscillation of the first bit stored in A. The sum gives a waveform that is stored in oscillator B and is available A for the arrival of the third bit. The third bit is converted, added with the waveform in B and the sum is saved in A. The resulting waveform is increasingly complex, because it has more harmonic components. But if oscillators A and B are superlatively good, faithful and perfectly preserve the resulting waveform that is stored in each, there is no theoretical limit to the number of harmonic components that can be added. The theoretical limit is the square wave, which has infinite harmonics. So, in theory, a harmonic memory is capable of saving infinite bits. If A and B are perfect devices, that memory is inexhaustible. In a real harmonic memory A and B could not be perfect. But after many improvements, it can surpass all the other types of memories that have been invented until today.
Excited with the idea, I asked myself what possibility does human memory have of being harmonic and, perhaps, that A and B are not oscillators made of brain matter. That is, the wave functions of A and B are stored in fields located around the head and not inside.
Years later I saw the same chapter for the second time, in a quieter environment. What Spok says is not harmonic memory. It is mnemonic memory, which does not inspire the same thing and which is a redundant phrase, because in Greek mnemos means memoryonic. It's like saying memory memoryonic. A dullness.
This is the anecdote of a chapter of Star Trek looked one day that there was noise at home.