[Sacajaweau]

I've decided the human brain files in alphabetical order. Why...because when I forget a name but go through the letters of the alphabet, I find that "S" (or whatever) brings me to a halt.

After that, I go for the phone book and go quickly through the "S"s..Voila...I spot something and the mystery name is solved.

I figure the senior moment stuff hasn't been filed yet or misfiled or it doesn't know where to file "sugar bowl in refrigerator".

That old relaxing and going over your path to find something works pretty good. I suppose it's just another "where do I file it".....under lost? That won't work. I didn't lose it. I put it someplace other than the usual place.

Watch out for brain overloads.

[Red Badger]

I have tried that method also. But I believe the brain also files things, not only by alpha order, but by sound or rhyme order. Reason being, I have often found that by using the vowel sounds and consonant sounds I can recall names or objects. If it were strictly alpha order, how would the brains of primitive tribes file things if they have no alphabet?.........

[monday]

One of the best books written about how the mind works is "Society of Mind" by Marvin Minsky. Fascinating.

[George Smiley]

One of the more interesting discoveries about how we read is that we tend to process the first and last characters of the word and fill in the middle to match the context.

I don't know if this holds true for languages like Chinese, though.