Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5765 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 17 of 23 04 February 2012 at 5:30pm | IP Logged |
atama warui wrote:
I often thought, a photographic memory sure would be great to have while learning kanji. |
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It would mean you don't have to understand the patterns, and therefore not organize your knowledge following those patterns. Which would make it less useful, and sooner or later very cluttered. Eidetic memory seems to become a problem the more you have to cope with new information to integrate, because you simply can't forget the unimportant information acquired two decades ago.
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Balliballi Groupie Korea, SouthRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4691 days ago 70 posts - 115 votes Studies: Korean
| Message 18 of 23 04 February 2012 at 10:50pm | IP Logged |
Bao wrote:
atama warui wrote:
I often thought, a photographic memory sure would be great to have while learning kanji. |
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It would mean you don't have to understand the patterns, and therefore not organize your knowledge following those patterns. Which would make it less useful, and sooner or later very cluttered. Eidetic memory seems to become a problem the more you have to cope with new information to integrate, because you simply can't forget the unimportant information acquired two decades ago. |
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I should have put "photographic" in quotation marks when I wrote "photographic memory" to show I was using the colloquial usage of the term. (I did think about doing that at the time I wrote it but didn't.) I did not mean the type of memory that some savants have, I meant "extraordinarily good memory", almost "photographic-like" in retention.
I think that's what a lot of people mean when they say "photographic memory" - having an excellent memory.
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Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5765 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 19 of 23 05 February 2012 at 9:43pm | IP Logged |
There are individuals with eidetic memory who are not savants. And what I wrote holds true for excellent memory as well - one doesn't only need the information itself; it must be possible to access it or inhibit it at the right time.
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Balliballi Groupie Korea, SouthRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4691 days ago 70 posts - 115 votes Studies: Korean
| Message 20 of 23 09 February 2012 at 8:50pm | IP Logged |
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"And what I wrote holds true for excellent memory as well - one doesn't only need the information itself; it must be possible to access it or inhibit it at the right time". |
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I think that's what an excellent memory is about by definition - being able to "access [information] [...] at the right time."
If you could not access your memory banks (for whatever reason) for information you need at the time, you would not have "excellent memory".
Edited by Balliballi on 09 February 2012 at 11:41pm
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zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6371 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 21 of 23 18 February 2012 at 4:10pm | IP Logged |
I hope nanotechnology, biotech, and AI will give us all this ability.
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 22 of 23 18 February 2012 at 4:37pm | IP Logged |
zerothinking wrote:
I hope nanotechnology, biotech, and AI will give us all this
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All of us rich ones you mean... Do we really want a world where the rich have super
mental abilities?
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zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6551 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew
| Message 23 of 23 18 February 2012 at 5:48pm | IP Logged |
K.U.Y. entry in wikipedia is considered somewhat doubtful -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kim_Ung-yong
I am unable to find any source news articles of him working at NASA...
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