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Would you say the source of your "quick depth" comes from experienced familiarity and being able to use multiple mental tools in serial and parallel to coax an

Would you say the source of your "quick depth" comes from experienced familiarity and being able to use multiple mental tools in serial and parallel to coax an answer? Or would you say it's closer to an intuitive, almost pre-cognitive/clairvoyant muscle memory (sort of like an instance of "clear" deja vu but without the usual suspicion that comes after of wondering where you've seen this before)?

neom 5y ago
"clairvoyant muscle memory" hahah - that made me chuckle. It's the second, it's hard to describe but when someone is talking and I'm listening my mind is continually queuing up memories, be it things I've heard or people I've had conversations with, it sorta gives me that information(I can literally hear them saying it to me)...? I don't really know how to describe it I'm afraid. It's useful, but useless when it comes to super fine things, books are not good ways for me to know things later, written words/numbers etc generally are pretty much useless for me. If I want to remember something I've read I have to tie it to a lot of other things to be useful, and almost never can I recall where I read it or whatever, just something is sorta there... usually results in googling. Not sure that makes any sense whatsoever.
- Dracophoenix 5y ago
  When you put it that way it sounds like some combination of smart caching and branch prediction.