My memory is really, really good. It's my recall that's crap. Feels more like my brain works like RAM and not a hard drive in that my memories are randomly accessed.

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If it was Ram then everything you learned would disappear when you went to sleep. But it would all be easily accessible at all times instantly.

A hard drive sounds way more appropriate. It's really good at following a single chain of information. It is terrible at randomly accessing information but it's all there. The problem of course is that - people don't talk as one long chain. There are tangents and then the drive must seek which is slow.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 2 years ago

If it was Ram then everything you learned would disappear when you went to sleep.

I mean, it does feel like that sometimes.