Garbage Collection

I love dreams. Mine are often very detailed, clear, extremely colorful, linger for a while (several hours) after I wake up, and full of strange and complex linkages between things that often cause me to make associations I wouldn’t have otherwise made. Ever since I learned about the concept of garbage collection in 6.001 at MIT in 1984 while using Scheme on HP Chipmunks , I’ve always thought of dreaming as the same as garbage collection for a computer . When I read Minsky’s The Society of the Mind I started referring to dreams as garbage collection for the mind. ...