Memory Craft
by Lynne Kelly · first published 2019
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Practical guide to memory palace and other ancient memorization techniques, drawn from many cultures; written by a memory champion, suiting readers who want to apply the methods rather than just read the history.
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If you want to learn more about indigenous memory techniques read: "Memory Craft" by Dr. Lynne Kelly and "Sand Talk" by one of the authors of the experiment in question.
on “An ultimate guide to memory palaces” ↗If you liked Frances Yates, look up Lynne Kelly. She has two books (The Memory Code and Memory Craft) that trace the techniques back into prehistory, long before Ancient Greece. The Memory Code contains interesting ideas about the history. Memory Craft is about how to apply the techniques.
on “The Method of Loci” ↗…https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Art_Of_Memory.ht... Yates' book is a scholarly treatment of memory systems. She is an historian who waded into the subject matter, but isn't a mnemonic practitioner. For a practical treatment, see Memory Craft by the science writer and memory champion, Lynne Kelly. https://www.booktopia.com.au/memory-craft-lynne-kelly/book/9...
on “Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper” ↗Lynne Kelly's book, "Memory Craft", explores memory palace techniques used from ancient times by different cultures. She is the current Australian Senior Memory Champion. The most intriguing thing for me is how she has turned her walks…
on “The Method of Loci: Build Your Memory Palace” ↗…They were arguably right. Pre literate peole could memorise vast texts (Homer's work, Australian Aboriginal songlines). Pre Gutenberg, memorising reasonably large texts was common. See, e.g. the book Memory Craft. We're becoming increasingly like the Wall E people, too lazy and stupid to do anything without our machines doing it for us, as we offload increasing amounts onto them. And it's not even that machines…
on “Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant” ↗> My brain isn't as elastic as a younger programmer's. The book Memory Craft by Lynne Kelly proposes that cultures that value and practice mnemonics, like storytelling, has less incidence of this and even often lack the idea that growing old means becoming duller. I've found that…
on “Getting hired after fifty” ↗Lynne Kelly in her book "Memory Craft" shares that the medieval bestiaries were used as a mnemonic to aid in memorizing the religious texts.
on “Medieval Bestiary” ↗…local LLM's, So if anyone has Open AI's search tools give it a shot. [1] "Few hundred years of Western society that we have lost the ability to memorise vast amounts of information." ― Lynne Kelly, Memory Craft: Improve your memory using the most powerful methods from around the world
on “Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s” ↗Dr. Lynne Kelley the author of The Memory Code and Memory Craft has it. She uses memory palaces. With aphantasia you still have a hippocampus so thinking about the concept of space to encode info works just the same. :)
on “An ultimate guide to memory palaces” ↗…They were arguably right. Pre literate peole could memorise vast texts (Homer's work, Australian Aboriginal songlines). Pre Gutenberg, memorising reasonably large texts was common. See, e.g. the book Memory Craft. > We're becoming increasingly like the Wall E people, too lazy and stupid to do anything without our machines doing it for us, as we offload increasing amounts onto them. You're right about the first…
on “Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant” ↗