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manmal on May 6, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Alan Kay on Donald Knuth

Great point. That sounds a bit like compression.

malux85 on May 6, 2024 [–]

It is a lossy form of compression. You dont remember exact copies of all of your sensory inputs - your brain abstracts and composes, at every level of abstraction.

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