Memories are not held in their entirety in the brain like old movie clips, but are maintained as a kind of chemical residue of the original perception, which could be thought of as a hash value or remainder, but not a one-way algorithm at all.
"Doing something like this runs a huge risk of entrenching in investors' minds the perception that Apple has become a value company, " said Anant Sundaram, a professor of finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth who personally owns Apple shares.
Fortunately, surviving collections of objects curated at the Museo del Oro in Bogota and British Museum in London can provide an insight into these different perspectives on material value and human perception and most importantly tell the true story behind the myths of El Dorado.