Human Memory Techniques
The cluster focuses on how human memory works differently from computer storage, the benefits of training it, and mnemonic techniques like memory palaces for better recall.
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thats an interesting memory paradigm, is there a name for this ? Something for me to try
Might be time to dust off the old memory palace technique
How much energy does your has-happened-but-not-yet-three-times memory use?
Well, that's one way to enhance the persistence of memory.
That's probably why so called memory palaces work
Human memory isn't perfect, to be fair.
How should we account for humans with photographic memory?
People without copious amounts of memory?
Is it? Memory exists to be used.
Human memory doesn't work like your hard drive. The notion that you have some sort of 'free disk space', because you don't remember function names is ludicrous. Quite contrary, the more you train your memory, the more you can remember.