"In this way something like a database is created that stores our preferences and dislikes."
— Klein, Stefan (b. 1965)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Marlowe & Company
Date
2006
Metaphor
"In this way something like a database is created that stores our preferences and dislikes."
Metaphor in Context
This is why both halves of the prefrontal cortex where the working memory resides, are constantly sorting through everything that happens according to its usefulness for the organism. In this way something like a database is created that stores our preferences and dislikes. Organizing so much information and summoning it from memory is a huge job that the prefrontal cortex makes easier by dividing it. The right half is responsible for life's nastier aspects, while the left is concerned with its more agreeable side.
(p. 37)
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Provenance
Searching for "The brain is like a database" in Google Books
Citation
Klein, Stefan, and Stephen Lehmann. The Science of Happiness: How Our Brains Make Us Happy---And What We Can Do to Get Happier. Trans. Stephen Lehmann. New York: Marlowe & Company, 2006. <Link to Google Books>
Theme
Computation
Date of Entry
05/14/2009
