> Working memory has been likened to a mental scratch pad: you use it to keep relevant data in mind while you’re completing a task. (Imagine a cross-examination

> Working memory has been likened to a mental scratch pad: you use it to keep relevant data in mind while you’re completing a task. (Imagine a cross-examination, in which a lawyer has to keep track of the answers a witness has given, and formulate new questions based on them.) Isn't it weird that we have to use auxiliary,learned tools as an analogy to how an innate tool works, and not the other way around? It's not like we don't have a lot of experience with thinking and forgetting, ourselves.