Memory Game Is

Let’s play the game of quibbling about how memory works. In ever so epically and humanly and Audrey-ly written, in her recent post Foolin’ Audrey Watters says: I sometimes joke that my brain is full of all sorts of stuff like this — useless stuff, one could easily dismiss it as — which takes up the brain-space in which I could have, should have used to preserve other, more important information, such as everything I learned in math class in 1983, the year that Pyromania was released. But — record scratch — that’s not how the brain works. Facts and memories are not files stored in a database, and there is no “storage full” warning when you hit capacity. There is no storage capacity. You don’t have to delete old knowledge — say, functions, which I’m certain that, at some point in eighth grade, I did know how to solve — in order to make room to stick new knowledge in your head. The brain is not a computer. The computer is not a brain. https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/foolin/ And…