At Capacity
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At Capacity
It is as if we don’t have knowledge about what we no longer have access to.
Michael Gazzaniga • Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
In his book Back to Sanity, the psychologist Steve Taylor recalls watching tourists at the British Museum in London who weren’t really looking at the Rosetta Stone, the ancient Egyptian artifact on display in front of them, so much as preparing to look at it later, by recording images and videos of it on their phones. So intently were they focused
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What Good Are Our Memories If We Never Share Them?
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While writing would allow far more knowledge to be preserved and accessed, it would also relieve individuals of the burden of sustaining collective memory themselves. Like writing and print, our use of digital media ordinarily generates an archive (as well as a trail of data, often invisible to users but of great value to others). But although digi... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
After all, to have any meaningful experience, you must be able to focus on it, at least a bit. Otherwise, are you really having it at all? Can you have an experience you don’t experience?
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Our reading memory in many ways echoes our experiential memory, but with one crucial difference: Experiential memory is of actual people, places, and things, whereas our reading memory is of those things as we have been induced to create them in our own minds.