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Maybe one day we'll have pills to have total recall for a few hours, wouldn't that be cool for exams and learning languages ? I much prefer that than a chip in
by BiteCode_dev 6y ago
Maybe one day we'll have pills to have total recall for a few hours, wouldn't that be cool for exams and learning languages ? I much prefer that than a chip in my head which the silicon valley seems super keen on selling me.
- k__ 6y agoReminds me of the book "There is no Antimemetics Division" where they take mnestics so they don't forget entities with antimemetic properties.
- jcims 6y agoMy memory is generally terrible. One discovery that was alarming, encouraging and disturbing at the same time is that I do appear to have some form of nearly total recall buried in there somewhere. Unfortunately it only surfaces in one way. If I listen to a podcast while I’m doing something, then listen to that same podcast again within a week or so, I will have regular, intrusive visual recall of exactly what I was doing the last time I heard whatever passage the podcast I was listening to. The recall is synchronized down to the word with the podcast, and is vividly detailed and colorful and includes some sensation of feeling as well. It’s weird and cool at the same time. One of these days I’d like to do an experiment where I videotape myself listening to the podcast, wait a week, then listen to it again and record myself describing what I see in my mind to test how accurate it is.
- victor106 6y agoThis is cool. Will try it.
- jcims 6y agoI never noticed or attempted to prime it. Just go listen to some episodes that you’ve listened to recently and see what happens. It’s not like rolling a projector when you hit play, it’ll fade in and out most likely.
- mrtksn 6y agoOh definitely, making one part of the brain work together with the other part will help me remember either of those when I do one ore the other at later time. For example, I occasionally play Pubg Mobile and while I do it I ikte listening to some podcasts on a topic I do work. When it comes to apply something that I learned from the podcast I will can have a recall on where exactly I was in the game when this particular topic was discussed.
- doitLP 6y agoI have the same, but notice it more with audiobooks. An entire year can go by and I will get a flash of where I was at a precise moment in the book exactly as you describe. Something similar was as a teenager: I could remember when/where I learned or first heard a new word. Sadly that ability has been waning.
- 20after4 6y agoI've noticed a sort of similar thing, though not nearly as vivid as what you describe. What I find is that listening to a song will trigger very specific memories of the place, time and feelings that I was experiencing when I first listened to that song. Or if not the first time I heard a song it will be from when I was listening to it regularly because it was new to me at that time. When this happens it's always especially vivid and compelling memory recall that is unlike any other I've experienced.
- hatch_q 6y agoReverse it? Watch video and check if you can remember the podcast?
- jcims 6y agoThat will be interesting! Will definitely try if i actually pull this together.
- temp0826 6y agoThat's sort of fascinating- it reminds me of how the ancient romans used to memorize long epic poems etc (walking around and making visual/spatial associations, then recalling their travel to recite it later. I might be butchering that a bit but that's how I understood the method)
- ThalesX 6y agoI think you might be referring to the Method of loci [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
- PicassoCTs 6y agoImagine having product related flash-backs, this is the advertisement of the future. Hackernews coloured menue bars, trigger a urge to buy Fanta. The power of the market compels your good idea to turn evil.
- quonn 6y agoWouldn‘t that just make these exams (more) pointless? Non scholae, sed vitae discimus ...
- amelius 6y agoOr a pill to erase specific parts of memory. You could see the same movie over and over again. In fact, you could cancel your Netflix subscription.
- zo1 6y agoYou could A/B test with a single person!
- HPsquared 6y agoTotal recall would be quite bad, every little irrelevant detail would be stored.
- bourgoin 6y agoThat's what I was thinking. Like playing a piano with the sustain pedal held down the entire time.
- rini17 6y agoMaking the absurd "drill, exam, forget" process flawless? That would be so sad to see. Instead, the material+process should be adapted to support long term memory. We know how to do it, already have spaced repetition and mnemonics, sadly teachers mostly ignore them.