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Here's an interesting observation. Well, I think it's interesting, and if you need to remember things for an effect, it's magic related:

You must memorise ten words written on a piece of paper, so you employ the ancient and noble method of loci to paint mental pictures along a journey you know well. You create these little scenes and the connections between them in such intricate and bizarre detail that you cannot help but recall the ten words in any order months or even years later. The paradox is that the huge amount of contextual information you create on-the-fly in order to remember them is far greater than the original ten words, and yet this information is also far easier to recall.

Quick nurse, the serum! I'm having "thoughts" again!

I guess you could make use of the extra information by assigning it meanings for other mnemonics or similar. This could be similar to my three dimensional mnemonic array (patent pending). And now my head hurts.

My head hurts after just reading that post

Aha, so true but in essence we are using neural path memory rather than data volume.

Just like muscle memory if you remember something over and over and over again the neurons can travel that path easier. So while you are generating multiple neural paths and neural associations you are actually making it easier to access that entire section of memory space.

I agree its odd tho especially when you think, "Jack of clubs." and end up with something like two dancing monkey's throwing bowling pins at each other.

I'm interested in the lattice method because it doesn't have the same distinctions of outlandish visualizations.

--Infy

It also makes me buy a bottle of cider everytime I walk to the shop, for some reason i just get the thought I should be buying it.

Then again...

I'd like to join the discussion -- but I'm overdrawn at the memory bank

I have a photographic memory - but I forgot to develope it.

TonyB wrote:I have a photographic memory - but I forgot to develope it.

I have an amateur photographic memory; lens caps, camera straps, and unhappy labradors wearing party hats.

Peter Marucci wrote:I'd like to join the discussion -- but I'm overdrawn at the memory bank

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrawn_ ... emory_Bank