AdamC wrote: > 2009/6/12 Damian Brasher <l...@interlinux.co.uk>: >> Do modern psychologists ever contrast computer data management to human >> data >> (memory) management?
> To summarise, my guess is that psychologists are still a long way from > completely understanding how human memory actually works, unless > anyone knows different(?) > Comparisons to nature often help engineers and designers make successful design decisions. But as you say my contrast is definitely simplistic - my perspective is derived from the comparison of the relative complexity of computing and the human mind both are which use much resources managing data/memories. I'm certainly not the first person to make these comparisons:) Thanks for the response, Damian -- WWW http://www.diaser.org.uk - working together to make long term digital archives more accessible RSS http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id=258272 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------
