/lit/ - Literature

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I did it in college for biochem. I used it to memorize stages in biochemical processes. About 25 items. It works.

Having said that, you need to put in a LOT more work if you want more than just a list of items. Having said THAT, there are people and systems to do that. You could even encode a very large list wherein "arrows" are given certain values; chair (item A), pumpkin (right arrow), xylophone (Item B), therefore A->B, whatever the fuck that means. I'd say you could look into how computers and programming languages deal with Lists and trees and the like if you wanted to do this sort of thing.

It doesn't replace actually understanding how things interlink, however. Memorizing huge lists is worthless if you can't use that knowledge productively.

I never tried Bruno's Memory Wheel thing, and while it's a very interesting idea I don't see how it's useful unless you're trying to make huge masses of combinations and seeing how they fit together. The problem with it isn't that this ISN'T useful, but rather, why the fuck would you do this in your head instead of just making a physical wheel? No matter what you're going to have to understand how the information links together anyways. Maybe the theory is that because it's in your head then it'll help with the linking?

"[...] But what is the value of this openness? Its main value is to
make reading active rather than passive. Literature can be
described as ‘closed’ for two basic reasons. Either because it is
too intelligible (and thus only tells you what you already
know); or else it isn’t intelligible at all (and doesn’t tell you
anything). In neither case is the reader truly engaged."

It's called active reading, OP, it consists in that you are not just passively receiving information, but you are actually actively engaged with the text and thinking to process the information. That's the beauty of good literature.
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