“I thought the take-down of Daniel Tammet as a memorizer and savant-imposter was pretty earth-shattering. I found the construction of the memory palaces so interesting, and the transposition of information into pre-formed spatial memories we have to be a fascinating concept. The defense of memory made me think a lot about how my own mind works, and particularly the thing about how information only stays in our brain if it has something to stick to. Remembering information helps you make connections, which is the only way to innovate and create something new. It defended that everything we know is built on that which we have learned, and a linear view of progress (it used this particularly in talking about decreasing sports record times), and that the more we learn and remember, the more we can create and add to the world of knowledge. Features a cameo by my fave guy Kim Peek. It was a little frightening to realize how little I remember from everything I read, but I sort of left it feeling hopeful that my mind retains skeletons of books, and I possess the mechanics somehow to reactivate them and make them walk and interact.”
bensbooks wrote this review 2 weeks ago.
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