We are allowed to only look at a single page / sentence at a time which is quite a lot more possible with a finite read-head and not need to remember pages we have turned away from.
You can google to benefit from the whole internet without needing to download the whole internet. You can work a 2 TB hardrive while only having 64MiB L1 cache. You can run arbitrary python programs with a CPU core with an instruction set that is small, finite and can not be appended.
You can manage a 2-hour paperwork session with a 6-second memory buffer.
I guess the human needs to bring english in their head instead of having a literally empty head. But having english in your head is not energywise a miracle to do.
No, I think I am not claiming about energy usage.
We are allowed to only look at a single page / sentence at a time which is quite a lot more possible with a finite read-head and not need to remember pages we have turned away from.
You can google to benefit from the whole internet without needing to download the whole internet. You can work a 2 TB hardrive while only having 64MiB L1 cache. You can run arbitrary python programs with a CPU core with an instruction set that is small, finite and can not be appended.
You can manage a 2-hour paperwork session with a 6-second memory buffer.
I guess the human needs to bring english in their head instead of having a literally empty head. But having english in your head is not energywise a miracle to do.