Memory... Human Memory...
Or perhaps just my memory...
as I see it.
So... This is how I see it. My long term memory is like a computer memory... filled with everything I've ever experienced. And just like computer memory it has limits. Long term memory... and once its filled, nothing more can be stored. Then there's short term memory... RAM if you will. It stores everything that won't fit in long term memory... new stuff. And once its filled, new information bumps out old information. So the older you get the more new stuff bumps out other stuff. And its completely random. Something from this morning or last week gets bumped out. That's why I remember the words to songs from 60 years ago... But can not recall what I went into the next room for.
Of course this is all made worse by fragmentation of the memory... which can not be fixed like a computer. Fragmented links connecting thousands of bits of information that prevents instant recall for what we are trying to remember. So recall takes hundreds of detours getting to the information that you were trying to remember... then it pops into your mind minutes or hours later when you're not even thinking about it. Go figure. All part of getting older. So... There you have it.
Wait... have what? ... Okay... yes ... memory... now you know...
Of course this is all made worse by fragmentation of the memory... which can not be fixed like a computer. Fragmented links connecting thousands of bits of information that prevents instant recall for what we are trying to remember. So recall takes hundreds of detours getting to the information that you were trying to remember... then it pops into your mind minutes or hours later when you're not even thinking about it. Go figure. All part of getting older. So... There you have it.
Wait... have what? ... Okay... yes ... memory... now you know...
exactly how things work.
It's all very scientific.
It's all very scientific.
