Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday muse

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Author: Chris Dennis
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Subject: 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.


I often find that I can only remember the first letter of something --
for example yesterday I was looking for a pub in Wimborne, and I knew it
began with "P" -- eventually we stumbled across the "Pudding and Pye"
and then I remembered.

What does that say about how my brain stores information?

The music in the P&P was excellent, BTW.

cheers

Chris
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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK