When using a computer, you strike keys or insert devices into USB ports that provide input to various programs – word processors, spread sheets, graphics editors, and so on.
It’s interesting how perfect the computer analogy is. When they say strike keys, it makes me think of how certain phrases, things, landmarks can bring back repressed memories.
Consider the following task.
what other tasks could we use as an example? Is there a way to strengthen our memory recall like how you update a computer?
Before proceeding further with discussion of GPS, it is worth pausing to consider Newell and Simon’s claim that there are symbols and symbolic operations within the brain.
How does the brain itself realize symbolic cognitive operations similar to a digital computer? Like in what sense can neural activity be understood as symbolic processing without literal physical symbols?