A lot of memory seems to be linear, possibly because most information in the world is encoded linearly. If I was to tell you the 20th letter of the alphabet, I’d have to go through every letter it in my head. It’s a linked-list data structure.
Even many memory techniques, like the mind palace, is ordered, with each item linking to the next.
I don’t think this is the same as markov-chains or predicting the next item, but that it has to do with the most common data structure of information being linear.
As for making the first word rhyme instead of the last, that’s an interesting thought! I actually have no idea. When I rhyme like that in my head, it sounds wrong, but I couldn’t tell you the reason. You may be on to something.
A lot of memory seems to be linear, possibly because most information in the world is encoded linearly. If I was to tell you the 20th letter of the alphabet, I’d have to go through every letter it in my head. It’s a linked-list data structure.
Even many memory techniques, like the mind palace, is ordered, with each item linking to the next.
I don’t think this is the same as markov-chains or predicting the next item, but that it has to do with the most common data structure of information being linear.
As for making the first word rhyme instead of the last, that’s an interesting thought! I actually have no idea. When I rhyme like that in my head, it sounds wrong, but I couldn’t tell you the reason. You may be on to something.