Jacqui Caren wrote:
> Damian Brasher wrote:
>> Do modern psychologists ever contrast computer data management to human
>> data
>> (memory) management?
>
> Very very simplistic :-) - how people respresent text differs from person to
> person.
Indeed, every scale devised misses something. I suppose we use simplistic
measuring tools to help us generalise in a meaningful and useful way up to a
point. I read in the new scientist recently that theories of relativity and
quantum physics are now being embraced by the one-size-fits-all string theory
which is so complex that no one can really explain it or derive anything
massively useful from it - yet.
> For example I read words as a form of mnemonic image - hence I take 4 novels
> into the bathroom every time I want a decent soak! This means when reading
> code
> I see a sequence of lexographic tokens. I also read transposed characters
> without noticing them.
When I diagnose a fault at the CLI I scan the text as if they are single
images then rapidly process these as a whole and try to match against
previous experiences. That scanning is okay for debugging, there is a name
for that and we all do it under various pressured circumstances.
I don't read much fiction these days, when I retire I will again. Factual
books interest me more and I get fiction from films or more recently LARPA. I
could definitely not read four fiction novels in parallel at once or even in
serial.
> Finally how we visualise what we see and translate in both 2d and 3d is
> a completely separate part of the brain to both short term and long term
> memory.
>
If you type 'brain gigabytes' into google these is a surprising amount
return, I like the one headed 'Is human brain memory greater than 80 GB hard
disk space ? - Web ...'
Gawd I hope so;)
Back to work I must go...
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