On: To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget

[foxyv]

I think a significant portion of my brain (Similar in size to the knowledge from my Bachelor's degree) was dedicated to remembering every quest and map up to WotLK. It's surprising how much I still remember from 7 years ago.

[vanderZwan → foxyv]

Funny enough, that might also reveal something about how human brains store information: locations on a map sounds suspiciously compatible with the method of loci (aka "memory palace", thanks to a more recent incarnation of Sherlock Holmes)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

[Retra → vanderZwan]

Music is also very easy to remember.

[vanderZwan → Retra]

IIRC there is recent research confirming it is at least partially stored in the same are responsible for muscle memory, which supposedly explains quite a few things.

[ZeikJT → vanderZwan]

If that is true, the obvious question is why is it stored there?

[vanderZwan → ZeikJT]

Well, there are strong ties to movement in music. There is a reason that you don't dance to paintings, literature or poetry.

So one option could be that music arises partly from our motor functions to begin with.

[vram22 → vanderZwan]

>There is a reason that you don't dance to paintings, literature or poetry.

Ha ha, well put. Although poetry is sort of like music, a bit, at least rhyming poems are. Just looked it up, this article is interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme