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Is it really that good?
Yes. I have concepts in Anki that I will be promoted to repeat again in 4 years and I've had to repeat 4-5 times in the past two years.
I know it's not exactly what you asked for, but in my experience, spaced repetition is borderline science fiction -- if implemented properly. It's not as instantaneous or cool as The Matrix , but it does feel like magic when you can remember obscure words or concepts years after entering them into a SRS program.
What SRS software do you recommend?
I know it's not exactly what you asked for, but in my experience, spaced repetition is borderline science fiction -- if implemented properly. It's not as instantaneous or cool as The Matrix , but it does feel like magic when you can remember obscure words or concepts years after entering them into a SRS program.
To "study" you will have to use some sort of (often natural, implicit, unplanned) spaced repetition. But you will also process the information with an eye to make it productive (as opposed to "just stored").
Not a neurologist, but my hunch is that even if we had perfectly working brain implants, this would be impossible the way they do in the movie - or at least would require lifelong monitoring of your brain structure before it could be done (which, arguably, would be feasible for people spending their life in a tub like in the movies - but infeasible for us) As a start, what "data format" would that downloadable knowle…
I'm not a neurologist too but what if you can do it without brain implants? Something like transmitting data in the form of waves to brain.
It seems that no one properly understands how information is stored in the brain. I think that needs to be solved first.
Dayan & Abbott theoretical neuroscience (I found a pdf)
Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code
There will be market forces to put there more than just the intended knowledge you want. And probably it won't be so easy to debug or clean as with plain text.
We have a high bandwidth input already known as eyes and ears
No, but a philosophical argument that showed how it was impossible would be almost as useful. You can just give someone a magic feather and let them believe they have become something, which is sufficient for many purposes. Remember that in the Matrix story, a world in which they could download skills from the simulation and instantly become things by essentially just imagining them, so long as they stayed within its…
In general though anything I have read says they work well even if not injured. They have just never caught on the way lifting weights has.
Probably something that the brain does very early in life, like around infancy, is to figure out for itself a way to store knowledge and learn how to store new things that it learns in that way. If each one makes it all up for itself, then it stands to reason that they're all different in unpredictable ways. The observed fact that people vary widely in overall intelligence, what they're good and bad at learning, and how they learn it, seems to follow naturally from that.