If you were designing the sort of information-processing system a brain is, it would be extremely impractical to store memories permanently in their original form. You need mechanisms for transforming and recording them; for "chunking" information into categories. Is your memory a phonograph record on which the information is stored in localized grooves to be replayed on demand? If so, it's a very bizarre record, for the songs are different every time they're played. Human memory is more like the village storyteller; it doesn't passively store facts but weaves them into a good (coherent, plausible) story, which is recreated with each telling.

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Judith Hooper Teresi: "If you were designing the sort of information-processing system a brain is, it would be extremely impractical to store memories permanently in their original form. You need mechanisms for transforming and recording them; for "chunking" information into categories. Is your memory a phonograph record on which the information is stored in localized grooves to be replayed on demand? If so, it's a very bizarre record, for the songs are different every time they're played. Human memory is more like the village storyteller; it doesn't passively store facts but weaves them into a good (coherent, plausible) story, which is recreated with each telling."

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Coherent	Demand	Designing	Different
Each	Every	Extremely	Facts
Form	Good	Grooves	Human
Impractical	Information	Informationprocessing	Into
Localized	Mechanisms	Memories	Memory
Need	Original	Passively	Permanently
Phonograph	Plausible	Played	Record
Recording	Recreated	Replayed	Songs
Sort	Store	Stored	Story
Storyteller	System	Telling	Them
Theyre	Time	Transforming	Very
Village	Weaves	Your

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If you were designing the sort of information-processing system a brain is, it would be extremely impractical to store memories permanently in their original form. You need mechanisms for transforming and recording them; for "chunking" information into categories. Is your memory a phonograph record on which the information is stored in localized grooves to be replayed on demand? If so, it's a very bizarre record, for the songs are different every time they're played. Human memory is more like the village storyteller; it doesn't passively store facts but weaves them into a good (coherent, plausible) story, which is recreated with each telling. - Judith Hooper Teresi