Damian Brasher wrote: > Do modern psychologists ever contrast computer data management to human data > (memory) management? > > Whilst thinking, probably too deeply again, about the differences between > Perl arrays and hashes it struck me that the human mind may use a similar > construct to manage memories. Which posed the question... What kind of mind > relies on lists and what kind of mind relies more on arrays for memory > management and recall. > > Perhaps more visual thinkers access large hash barrels of key pair values > containing information of varying types where more textual thinkers access > many shorter ordered lists and all those in-between exist of course. (Note: > if you print out a hash as a list there can be a lot of unreadable junk in > there;) but more random data with which to pattern match with? > > Damian >
I think you should get out more. Jonny -- Jon Wilks PGP key 0xFA593C1A from hkp://wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
