What if your brain works like RAM?

[yhelothar]

RAM doesn't erase after it powers down..
DRAM does that.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

I prefer selective memory erasures, so EEPROM is a better concept. I wish I could remove, among other things, all the old pr0n still floating around in there...

 

[sillymofo]

Alright... so you all wanna be technical...

Since we don't really have slots where we could insert different memory modules, can we at least agree that our brains serve as storage and processing memory also? Lets say some of us have more storage capacity than others, and some have faster memory than others, yeah? Since I have never put together a human, and I don't know which wire goes where, I'm gonna have to hypothetically refer to the front part of my brain as RAM, and the lower part as storage.

I'm will also name the heart the CPU, since that's the closest thing to a CPU in our body (I know it doesn't process anything, or does it? , but it keeps timing). Our stomach would be the PSU, body both as motherboard and case, all other senses are input functions. Now that's out of the way, let's take a look at my original question.

When we go to sleep, it is very much like powering down a computer, you don't remove the plug from the wall, but simply shutting it down. Now, lets say your storage is full and you can only process information in RAM when you boot up, and you can't store any new information. Since you can't store anything, when you shut down (sleep), everything that was held in RAM is now dumped. When you're awake again, you'd still have everything in storage, but none that was processed the day before. Now if you suddenly come to realization that this is a disease you have (a virus may be?), will you format c:\?

There... shhheeeeshhh!!!11!1!!:roll:

:laugh:

 

[OMG1Penguin]

Just imagine all the ubernerds walking around with zalman heatsinks.


Just for those extra couple cycles.



"Is that an oxygen tank?" "No, it's my new watercooling~"

 

[Adam8281]

hahahaha! And I guess the more RAM we have, the better we should be at multitasking. I know a lot of people who have cutting edge processors, and massive hard drives, but about 16 megs or RAM, and can only work one one thing at a time or else they go nuts and can't handle it.

 

[AMCRambler]

My does! Uh oh....page fault....where the hell am I? What is this An-and-tech?