Here is an interesting quote;
“Humans cannot retain extensive amounts of information in one sitting. It doesn’t take much to flood human consciousness. Bombarding the senses with data over a number of hours cannot be absorbed. Real learning is both longitudinal and relational.” RL
I would have to wonder how anyone could have made it through school and university when not only was the consciousness bombarded in one sitting, it was bombarded every day for many years.
If with think about school, and we use the 80/20 rule for example as a rough guestimate to make my point (students only remember 20% of what they a told).
8820 hrs in school (grade one to seven) at 20% = 1764 hrs of data absorption....that's about 58 weeks of schooling 294 weeks of school (7 years)...that's just over one year in seven.
That in my world is a lot a days not learning much.