Reply #4: I think the scientific evidence so far is against me, but I feel like this can be improved.

[themadstork]

Although honestly I don't totally understand the relation they're drawing between working memory and the "overload." is overload really an instantaneous overloading of the working memory, or is it rather a sort of intellectual fatigue that's brought on by constant topic-switching as well as the duration of the info-uptake?


Over the past year I've made a little self-improvement experiment out of seeing just how much information a person can be trained to absorb. And while progress has been slow, it does seem clear that I'm now at a speed and intensity and duration of sheer asorbtion that would have been utterly overwhelming a year ago. It's actually not as hard as you'd think. Begin thinking of your brain as hard-drive and see where it takes you. I can recall most the stuff I take in throughout the day now, at least if I'm not short on sleep. You sorta have to self-consciously partition off your memory.

Edit - I realize the brain in no way works like a hard-drive. Just meant it as an organizational tool, before anyone thinks I'm nutters.