Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

Damian Brasher wrote:
> Do modern psychologists ever contrast computer data management to human data
> (memory) management?
>
> Whilst thinking, probably too deeply again, about the differences between
> Perl arrays and hashes it struck me that the human mind may use a similar
> construct to manage memories. Which posed the question... What kind of mind
> relies on lists and what kind of mind relies more on arrays for memory
> management and recall.
>
> Perhaps more visual thinkers access large hash barrels of key pair values
> containing information of varying types where more textual thinkers access
> many shorter ordered lists and all those in-between exist of course. (Note:
> if you print out a hash as a list there can be a lot of unreadable junk in
> there;) but more random data with which to pattern match with?
>
> Damian
>

I think you should get out more.

Jonny
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