Surely retrieving an individual fact is more like a conditioned response than it is storing some bytes on a harddrive? When I say "what is 9 times 9" your brai

Surely retrieving an individual fact is more like a conditioned response than it is storing some bytes on a harddrive? When I say "what is 9 times 9" your brain activates all the pathways (probably trained in childhood) that lead to you thinking "81" in a similar way to Pavlov's dog.