The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces | Quanta Magazine
Jordana Cepelewiczquantamagazine.org
The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces | Quanta Magazine
no matter how objective we try to be, it is still through the structure of the brain that we perceive the world. So, if there are absolutes, we have no direct access to their existence. The mind constructs.
normally memories are stored more or less at random in semantic networks, or webs of association. But you have now stored a large number of memories in a very controlled context. Because of the way spatial cognition works, all you have to do is retrace your steps through your memory palace, and hopefully at each point the images you laid down will
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