Memory
September 22, 2009mike Comments OffThe brain is an interesting organ. It doesn’t pump red (blue) goodness, it doesn’t process those super mighty tacos, or even rid the body of a bottle of gin. The brain does something different, it does something that is hard to explain, sure it gives commands to all of the other organs and it is what you think with and how you read this article, but it is memory that is the most peculiar of its functions. When I hit File > Save or CTRL+S all of a sudden my document or file is written into a little spinning disk of silicon and will be there (hopefully Bill Gates hopefully) the next time I need it with no changes to it exactly as it was when it was left. The brain however doesn’t work like that. It has an enormous capacity for memory, but can’t be told what to remember and what to forget. Reading over and over and over the same facts in studying for an exam has little greater chance of being remembered as a split second happenstance on the street corner. Interesting how that works, interesting how some of the “most memorable” moments of our lives slip away while the “least memorable” are there with us forever. The Brain: Processor, RAM, & faulty Hard Drive of the human body… must be running Windows!