That would be associative, then. Let's say you were sitting at your desk, programming, and you thought of something you wanted to buy -- it was in your short term memory, and then you forgot it. It wasn't until you remembered you were programming when you thought of this object that you remembered what the object WAS. 
%brain = (
  programming => {
    'things to buy' => { 'doohickey' => undef, },
    # ...,
  },
  # ...,
);

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That's how I see my brain working.

$_="goto+F.print+chop;\n=yhpaj";F1:eval

In reply to RE: RE: How do our brains work? by japhy
in thread How do our brains work? by japhy

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