Re: CHAT: Parallelism

dunn patrick w wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Sally Caves wrote:
>
> > Nik Taylor wrote:
> > >
> > > dunn patrick w wrote:
> > > > Is only one.  Hence, we remember the order of planets not by remembering
> > > > nine units in a row (incidently, this applies particularly to short term
> > > > memory rather than long term memory), but as a single unit, a sentence:
> > > > "My very educated mother just baked us nine pies."
> >
> > Where does Saturn fit in here?  Saturn is "baked"?
> >
> > Sally
>
> Heh.  I forgot the mnemonic.  Isn't that ironic.  It's "served," not
> "baked."
>
> Wchi illustrates another point: after working with a mnemonic for a while,
> it no longer becomes necessary.  I can recite the order of the planets
> without using the sentence, because I've placed them in long term memory.
> (of course, that doesn't mean there aren't glitches)
And this is also a wonderful example, IMHO, of the storage vs.
computational debate we've been having.  You didn't need to
compute the mnemonic, which is why you missed "baked."  But
to "bake a pie" is much more of a stored cliche' than "to serve
a pie."  You searched the store rather than conducted the
computation.  Am I right?

Sally
Nine and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie