![]() ![]() Memory in the brain evolved to serve survival. In a computer, information is represented in a literal way in memory, and searched by scanning memory locations in sequence, or sometimes using shortcuts like indexes to locate something. The second thing is that the way memory works in the brain is very different from how it works in a computer. What the brain is good at is intelligence: Making sense of the world in a way that facilitates problem-solving, prediction, flexible action, language, and complex social organization. A computer can search millions of pages of documents much more quickly and accurately than the brain can. ![]() The first thing to note is that the mind is not very fast. Understanding how the mind works is still very much the subject of active research in both neuroscience and cognitive science. Answer by Paul King, Computational Neuroscientist. This question originally appeared on Quora. ![]()
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