We don’t store words or the rules that tell us how to manipulate them.
"i before e except after c"
"believe contains a LIE"
hear/here they're their there
spectral colours = ROY G. BiV (if you include indigo)
Great Lakes = HOMES
"negative b, plus or minus the square root of: b squared minus 4ac, all over 2a"
"dy/du du/dx"
I'm not saying we know how that information is stored, but without seeking the information, those rules, spellings, and how to use them automatically pop up into my head without delay. I understand subject/verb agreement, and while I often fail stick to proper use of tenses, I can usually catch my own failures when re-reading what I've written.
I can't draw a dollar bill. I can't because human brains are great at pruning. We purposefully don't keep a record for most of everything we experience. We are highly lossy from the outset, and delete details over time. To put a computer in the same position, if I hook up a camera and microphone to my computer but don't actually record anything, the computer is not going to replicate a dollar bill, either. If I take a jpeg or make a short highly compressed mp4 of a dollar bill as seen through fumbling fingers at the check out, that image also won't have much detail for a computer to copy, and a generic computer would be unlikely to even know the bill has a rectangular shape. Sure, you could write a program specifically to figure out the planar dimensions of such object, but that is a lot of work for partial recognition.
Also, the definition of computer has changed over time. It used to be a profession for humans good at math. Now we only think of those boxes of equipment that require an operating system, supporting software, peripherals, and electric current. More than that, I don't know who thinks brains are at all like computers given computers are completely lacking emotional responses. Yes, I know you can set up 'points' to get them to favor one result or another, but they don't get frustrated and rage quit if they can't score. Yeah, they seg fault and blue screen, but not out of frustration, or love, or boredom or from distractions. Computers and people have different designs for different functions. Can we leave it at that?
I'm not saying we know how that information is stored, but without seeking the information, those rules, spellings, and how to use them automatically pop up into my head without delay. I understand subject/verb agreement, and while I often fail stick to proper use of tenses, I can usually catch my own failures when re-reading what I've written.
I can't draw a dollar bill. I can't because human brains are great at pruning. We purposefully don't keep a record for most of everything we experience. We are highly lossy from the outset, and delete details over time. To put a computer in the same position, if I hook up a camera and microphone to my computer but don't actually record anything, the computer is not going to replicate a dollar bill, either. If I take a jpeg or make a short highly compressed mp4 of a dollar bill as seen through fumbling fingers at the check out, that image also won't have much detail for a computer to copy, and a generic computer would be unlikely to even know the bill has a rectangular shape. Sure, you could write a program specifically to figure out the planar dimensions of such object, but that is a lot of work for partial recognition.
Also, the definition of computer has changed over time. It used to be a profession for humans good at math. Now we only think of those boxes of equipment that require an operating system, supporting software, peripherals, and electric current. More than that, I don't know who thinks brains are at all like computers given computers are completely lacking emotional responses. Yes, I know you can set up 'points' to get them to favor one result or another, but they don't get frustrated and rage quit if they can't score. Yeah, they seg fault and blue screen, but not out of frustration, or love, or boredom or from distractions. Computers and people have different designs for different functions. Can we leave it at that?