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This reminds me of the Extended mind thesis. As long as you're capable of looking it up, it's part of your mind for all practical purposes. Storing it literally
by fighterpilot 5y ago
This reminds me of the Extended mind thesis. As long as you're capable of looking it up, it's part of your mind for all practical purposes. Storing it literally in your brain wouldn't add benefit in many (not all) cases.
- toto444 5y agoThis does not really apply to language learning.
- fighterpilot 5y agoIt doesn't, and it's interesting to note why - the latency of recall is important with language because it's so often used in daily life and because low latency is needed for fluid conversation. For more scarcely needed information, the latency of recall (200ms vs 10s) doesn't matter, and so it is often preferable to store it outside of the brain. It might still be important to store a pointer to that information with some metadata in the brain so that it can be used in conceptual reasoning. But the actual data can be stored elsewhere (e.g a phone number on a smartphone).