Curated! This is a nice short post! I think the altered state of memorylessness is pretty interesting evidence for how minds might work. I would not have guessed that the multiplication tasks wouldn’t be impaired (though I’m a little confused how to think about exactly what it means to have no trouble doing a multiplication while needing to be reminded of the numbers).
This post also reminds me of (HPMOR spoilers)
Harry’s occlumency lessons, where the instructor had the same thoughts each time. At the time I was sceptical that the other environmental noise of one’s life wouldn’t change the answer. This seems like some evidence in favour of the HPMOR-style repetition.
Curated! This is a nice short post! I think the altered state of memorylessness is pretty interesting evidence for how minds might work. I would not have guessed that the multiplication tasks wouldn’t be impaired (though I’m a little confused how to think about exactly what it means to have no trouble doing a multiplication while needing to be reminded of the numbers).
This post also reminds me of (HPMOR spoilers)
Harry’s occlumency lessons, where the instructor had the same thoughts each time. At the time I was sceptical that the other environmental noise of one’s life wouldn’t change the answer. This seems like some evidence in favour of the HPMOR-style repetition.