Memory: CPU's Muse?

Memory has always been an interest of mine.  The brain is a fascinating thing and no one really knows how it works.  We have tried to come up with different methods and experiments to better help us label each part and assess what part is responsible for what, but when it comes to memory nothing is really concrete, yet anyway.  Hermann Ebbinghaus was a German psychologist whom is often called the father of memory.  Best known for his nonsense non-syllables,  Ebbinghaus was the first to experimentally investigate the human memory.  Using himself as the only test subject, Ebbinghaus would have a list of nonsense non-syllables (basically jibberish) that he would set off to try to memorize and then would test himself later. With this, he established a forgetting curve. The longer he waited to test himself, the more he forgot.   This was one of the first things discovered about our memory.  Since then, many other psychologists have given their fair time to trying to decipher how our memory works.  Most recently, Alan Baddeley has more clearly made up a model that explains our memory.  No system is perfect and his model has been criticized, but his model is the latest and sets a foundation for any future models to come. 

This model, explains the memory most like a computer.  Our sensory memory is seen as the input devices of a computer.  What we see, hear, touch, etc brings in information just like typing into a keyboard or scanning something into a computer would.  What we just saw or felt, is then sent to our brain and can stay there for awhile in the short term memory, but if we don't transfer it to the longer term memory it will be forgotten.  On a computer, we would have something up on the screen, but if we don't save the file, it will be lost and not retrievable.  All this work is all done by the central processing unit (CPU) on a computer which matches our central executive system in our memory.  Below is a video comparing and contrasting why a computer is/ isn't like the brain.