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The same way people need blackboard.

To jot specific thing down so they can be manipulated and retrieved faster with the context intact instead of trying to do everything with your brain.

When the process finish the blackboard is cleared.

If a brain is the CPU and harddisk, the blackboard is the memory.

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Because if it didn't it could not store anything

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