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Memories of the 28th Century

Miscellaneous thoughts about miscellaneous matters

  1. Remember?

    by , 12-31-2013 at 05:43 PM (Memories of the 28th Century)
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    Memory is strange. The human memory isn’t completely analogous with computer hard drives, but there is a lot of similarity. The biggest difference is that we can’t tell whether our memories are accurate. But with magnetic memory we can’t tell whether the data was accurately recorded; although errors in the actual memory are usually obvious. There may be errors in our memories, but the brain plasters those over with something, so we can’t tell whether there was an error or something else ...