Computation and Human Experience (RRE)

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>Dace:
>> Memory occupies time but not space.  ...
>
>So it defies the "laws" of physics.  Well, that's pretty
>interesting.
>
Yes, it is, and I'd be extremely interested to know exactly how it is that
this notion of memory is in conflict with physical laws.


>So, all this time we could have tossed those messy animal
>brains, computer chips, tapes, papers, graven tablets, knotted
>strings, and other inconvenient, energy-consuming, space-
>obtruding objects?
>
These are examples, not of memory, but of memory aids.  They've obviously
been of some use to us down the centuries.