THIS week’s thought-provoking paper title, submitted by Martin Gardner, is “From computer to compost”. It’s not about new regulations on recycling dead electronics, or even about the thoughts that consumers have when their electronic devices keep crashing.
It is published in the journal Theory & Psychology () and, according to the abstract, it “introduces the compost heap as a metaphor for autobiographical memory”. How does it do that, then? It “considers four entailments of the compost heap analogy that may serve, very roughly, as counterparts to such concepts as encoding, storage, and retrieval. They are: laying it on, breaking…
