The Spatial Metaphor of Memory

The way memory works is, i send in a little homonculus. He searches through the rooms until he finds the right room. And then he goes in the room, and everything's organized there,. Then he brings it out, and then he passes it up to consciousness. Ah, and that's how i remember, right? Here's and isanc and kink keen pointed out this a long time ago, the spetial metaphor for memory is almost completely wrong. Your memory does not work this way. You rapidly know when you don't know something. What's merl streep's phone number? I don't know. Have you ever been in bancock? No.