What is your earliest consistent memory? One reason I'm drawn to cognition is that Web and distributed network models reflect aspects of how human memory as we understand today works (or doesn't)! Our brains are tasked to take distributed memory and make them accessible to us.

We are of course as a species quite filled with errors and bugs just as the networks and systems we engineer. Memory can also be filled with errors and bugs, sometimes to the point of extremes if we are overwhelmed, traumatized and/or adept at purposeful blocking of our thoughts.

We can often verify memory via witnesses to the event, the event being repeated enough to stand out in our minds. While all this can go with providing a clearer memory from early life, so can family/group errors - again - reflected in our networking and systems designs.