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129 sats \ 1 reply \ @ablunderfilledlife 1 Mar 2024 \ on: "The End of Absence" by Michael Harris: Notes + Review BooksAndArticles
Sherlock Homes curates his memory. It's the honing, the selection of what's worth remembering, that makes a mind great. The limits of the human body, and the human mind, too, are the borders that define us.
If I remember correctly, Holmes uses a memory palace, an actually effective method of remembering information. You basically associate memories with specific locations within an architectural space you are really familiar with, such as your house or old school. By mentally placing each memory or piece of information in a distinct location within this imagined space, youcan later recall them with precision by mentally walking through the palace and retrieving the associated memories.
The brain is multinominal. This means that we think by combining several terms in relation to one another, not merely by identifying particular words.
I can't help but think how this is unlike the efficiencies of a SQL database that uses primary and foreign keys in distinct tables. BUT I am okay with my mind being messier than a .db file.
Your notes on our relationship with technology is bleak! It's bleakness is moreso because I really can't refute it much. Have you read Is Google Making Us Stupid? It's a reflective essay that strikes at the same spirit of this issue. Use https://12ft.io/ to jump the paywall.
Thank you for sharing... in more than one way.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 1 Mar 2024
You are a walking encyclopaedia! Indeed, the book mentions memory palace, but because I am familiar with this memory tool, I didn’t bother typing it here. I have levelled up as a teacher this year because I taught my incoming seventh graders this tool haha
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