The human brain as a hard drive - Rob Felt

The analogy has been made before, but it's just as often discredited. "Our brains are not like hard drives," they say. "That's not how they work. Our brains can store an infinite amount of information and access it in different ways instantaneously." Well, maybe our thought process works like a hard drive a little more than they give it credit for.

Access speed. Sometimes you're on fire and you can remember all the addresses you've ever lived at, and sometimes it's nearly impossible to pronounce words correctly. Additionally, some people seem to just have trouble getting their disks spinning up to speed in the morning, and some don't get it there all day long.