Biggest issue with that post is that "memory" or "thinking" is basically equated with conscious thought. Remembering is a little more complex and tacit than jus

Biggest issue with that post is that "memory" or "thinking" is basically equated with conscious thought. Remembering is a little more complex and tacit than just actively having words in your mind or straight forward recollection. You may forget most of a book in a very literal sense but that doesn't mean that connections you've made while reading haven't left some impressions on how you 'think'. that's particularly obvious if instead of reading you take something like making music. You often 'construct' or build on things you've learned in ways that aren't conscious choices at all. What you learned doesn't just manifest by playing scales but maybe by some subtle stylistic choice or technique you can't recall picking up. So I think it's just a false dichotomy. A lot of what you construct, in particular subconsciously is based on transmission, and transmission always requires reconstruction anyway, because we're not databases, and every act of transmission is interpretation.