Memorization also forces you to "reduce dimensionality" in the data—find the underlying patterns of correlation and causality that cause the world to be structu

Memorization also forces you to "reduce dimensionality" in the data—find the underlying patterns of correlation and causality that cause the world to be structured the way it is. You can't feasibly fit every single event in the history of every country in the world into your head, but it becomes a lot more feasible once you extract a narrative that explains the data effectively. Memorization implicitly requires learning and characterizing them entirely separately as modern education does is pretty faulty.