Comment by tovej
3 hours ago
1) That's not infinite, just vast
2) Hyperthymesia is about remembering specific events in your past, not about retaining conceptual knowledge.
3 hours ago
1) That's not infinite, just vast
2) Hyperthymesia is about remembering specific events in your past, not about retaining conceptual knowledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w
APL inventor says that he was developing not a programming language, but notation to express as much problems as one can. He found that expressing more and more problems with the notation first made notation grow, then notation size started to shrink.
To develop conceptual knowledge (when one's "notation" starts to shrink) one has to have some good memory (re-expressing more and more problems).