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Showerthoughts @lemmy.world infinite_ass @leminal.space 2mo ago

Thinking doesn't pass values, it passes references.

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Actually thinking passes values.

Speaking passes references.
- To private variables. :(
  
  :fingerguns: this person gets it
Doesn't recall actually use the values and re-writes them to the brain? I seem to recall that being why we can have new associations and why memories can be slightly altered or degrade every recall.

Though I'm no brain guy.
- I figure that which is written and rewritten is addresses. To memories and some kind of ambient idea-objects.
  
  If that were the case, you wouldn't just remember things a little wrong, you'd try and recall your name and instead be remembering a field trip you took in 3rd grade.
  
  The other guy is right. Pass by value is a better analogue, and the act of recall actually performs a mutation.
*though
- Clear as mud
  
  just like pointers

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