Human memories are notoriously fallible, have a fixed capacity, and
degenerate with time. Storing large amounts of data is impractical. Humans compensate for this by distilling large amounts of knowledge into
a manageable number of rules (or heuristics) that are effective at reconstructing
the data. Computer memory, on the other hand, can be made
infallible, expanded to fit the needs, and preserved forever. Hence, a bruteforce
approach to storage can be used: save everything.