Memorising?

luka

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Both similar to, and very different from, Marcello Carlin. I think both quite a long way out there in terms of neurodivergence. Living - really living - in extraordinarily richly-detailed worlds, lovingly assembled memory palaces.
It’s a way of being I admire a lot. My inner landscape is much more fragmented. I’m a magpie, not a Keeper of the Great Archive.
 

poetix

we murder to dissect
I have lots of memories, but very randomly-accessible, and as likely to be obscure facts about things as bits of salient personal life history. I would struggle to produce a memoir, but could ramble incessantly about Stuff I Have Taken An Interest In (well, I do already - on the internet).
 

luka

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When true memory arrives, and for me this is probably only on drugs or on the aftermath, then it comes with the entire atmosphere of the time attached, the predominant feeling-tone and etc you literally are taken back in an impossible way.
 

mvuent

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read an interview with francois bayle a few months ago where he claims to remember every sound he's ever used in his music (which would have spanned about 50 years at the time). he says he'd recognize any of his sounds even backwards and transposed up or down multiple octaves. he says that might sound like bragging but really everyone has amazing powers of memory. and i can think of a lot of cases where that seems true. you can amass a surprising amount of knowledge just through regular use. and regular-use knowledge is surely the strongest, most important kind.

so while i've been into the idea of "outsourcing" memory and other brain functions to tech for years, there has to be the worry that not everything's getting transferred--some things get lost, to insidious effect. in particular in the arts, maybe memory is deeply connected to acuity of perception and sensitivity to meaning. maybe it's impossible to fire on all cylinders creatively if you haven't cultivated, as bayle put it, an elephant-like memory.
 

linebaugh

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read an interview with francois bayle a few months ago where he claims to remember every sound he's ever used in his music (which would have spanned about 50 years at the time). he says he'd recognize any of his sounds even backwards and transposed up or down multiple octaves. he says that might sound like bragging but really everyone has amazing powers of memory. and i can think of a lot of cases where that seems true. you can amass a surprising amount of knowledge just through regular use. and regular-use knowledge is surely the strongest, most important kind.

so while i've been into the idea of "outsourcing" memory and other brain functions to tech for years, there has to be the worry that not everything's getting transferred--some things get lost, to insidious effect. in particular in the arts, maybe memory is deeply connected to acuity of perception and sensitivity to meaning. maybe it's impossible to fire on all cylinders creatively if you haven't cultivated, as bayle put it, an elephant-like memory.
I think this isnt too uncommon, maybe even the norm. Does this happen with you? I feel like I have similar clarity of memory for anything I do that involved. I could walk you through every step of every shitty little 'sound experiment' I ever made dating back over five years ago if I were to hear it now.
 

version

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I think this isnt too uncommon, maybe even the norm. Does this happen with you? I feel like I have similar clarity of memory for anything I do that involved. I could walk you through every step of every shitty little 'sound experiment' I ever made dating back over five years ago if I were to hear it now.
I was the complete opposite when I made music. I'd remember bits and pieces, like where certain samples came from, but it was mostly a blur and I'd often be surprised by what I'd ended up with.
 

linebaugh

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how common or uncommon it is wasn't really the point. imo the question is does that benefit you in ways other than helping you win a limbaugh's sound experiments-themed trivia game?
dont prosecute me I was just adding to the conversation
 

linebaugh

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but it doesnt really help at all youre right. also worth noting that whatever I was doing musically wasn't the most complex, but I have made a ton of music and I bet I could in detail describe the process for 95% of it and I didn't really have a 'formula' to simplify things. I dont really have good memory outside of that either.
 

mvuent

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but it doesnt really help at all youre right. also worth noting that whatever I was doing musically wasn't the most complex, but I have made a ton of music and I bet I could in detail describe the process for 95% of it and I didn't really have a 'formula' to simplify things. I dont really have good memory outside of that either.
too disappointed by this answer to give it a like though. you've realized you've got and uncommonly good memory now and are getting modest. "oh it's nothing really, nevermind"
 

linebaugh

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too disappointed by this answer to give it a like though. you've realized you've got and uncommonly good memory now and are getting modest. "oh it's nothing really, nevermind"
I compared my self to lebron james the games most dominant big man
 

mixed_biscuits

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it must be common amongst geniuses, I dont know
I have come across this exhaustive recall in world champion-level sports/games players whom I know.

I think it's cos this pointless crap just means a lot more to them, which is why they strove for that level in the first place.
 
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william_kent

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mnemonics are useful - here's one everyone should know:

FAST

Face, Arms, Speech, Time to call a fucking ambulance ( for recognising strokes )

I don't and can't play the guitar but I can still remember standard tuning ( or treble clef - I forget which - is it both? ) from "Every Good Boy Deserves A Favour"

"muscle memory" has served me well - i can still ride a bike, I can enter pin numbers without conscious recall, and enter passwords when presented with a keyboard - still, I am in awe of people who can perform complicated dance routines, I'd be lost after the first move...
 
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