There's a big tension in the mnemonic medium around the locus of control b/w the author and reader.
Too author-centric: prompts can feel forced, not "yours"
Too reader-centric: burdensome, split attention, often yields bad prompts
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My vague sense is that a change in primitives is probably required, but I'm not sure if it's the nouns, the verbs, or both.
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At some point, the info in your text must be encoded in readers brain. I see the making of qns as making more brain-usable code, and playing qn-ans as a process of feeding the code into 🧠. I remember Engelbarts “processes” & “notation”-
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2/ the notation that seems most 🧠-ish to me are “sets”. Each info with meaning is part of many brain sets, contains sets & relates to other sets. Making own qns links to one’s existing sets. This is also why memory tricks not helpful- link info to arbitrary sets without meaning-
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3- the qn in my mind is- are traditional linear spoken or written sentences the optimal notation for feeding into memory? Have we been limited by the technology of speech, when experience shows we’re bad at dealing with even short stretches of speech (think- street directions).
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