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That's actually completely incorrect. I say this as someone who was blessed with eidetic memory for the first few decades of my life. I could see or read someth
by User23 6y ago
That's actually completely incorrect. I say this as someone who was blessed with eidetic memory for the first few decades of my life. I could see or read something once and it stuck. I actually trained myself to not remember things that I found emotionally unpleasant and didn't want just popping up. I literally got tired of people telling me how smart I was, because I knew I wasn't. I was just capable of recalling what other actually smart people thought about the scenario in question or one analogous enough to more or less fit. It always felt incredibly empty.
It's clear to me that the actually smart people don't need to recall someone else's clever solution, they just figure it out on their own from the observables.
- majormajor 6y ago> It's clear to me that the actually smart people don't need to recall someone else's clever solution, they just figure it out on their own from the observables. You gotta be able to make connections. If you have to figure out everything from observables, you're gonna be very slow at anything that isn't truly uncharted territory compared to others. If your memory is lacking, you won't be able to make the leap from "here's what I'm seeing right now, here's a vaguely similar pattern from that past, what does that suggest?" That's where "just google it" breaks down too because if you don't know that the symptoms you're seeing are characteristic of a race condition, say, you won't know to google for "race condition"!
- aaaxyz 6y ago"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." - Isaac Newton, some actually not smart guy
- BeetleB 6y agoThe parent did not say memorizing will make you smart. He said it was something smart people tend to do. There's a big difference.
- brigandish 6y agoHow did you learn to forget specific things? That skill seems just as interesting to me as learning to remember specific things but I've never heard of anyone doing it, probably because eidetic memory (in adults, at least) is rare.