Memory Palace and Matteo Ricci?
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#1 — dubbmann · 2019-03-29
Hi all,
I was searching for books on Chinese history (don’t ask) on Amazon recently and came across a remarkable title: “The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci”
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140080988/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i4 3.8 out of 5 stars, ISBN: 978-0140080988, Penguin Books, September 3, 1985, $13.33Link: [The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci](The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
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I didn’t even make the connection until I was revisiting my plans to purchase a Memory Palace (the LZX) variety that I put the two together. So I was wondering if the Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci was the source of the name of the LZX product? Lars?
Cheers,
P
#2 — creatorlars · 2019-04-02
Memory Palace is a reference to a mental focus technique called a mind palace or method of loci. Us humans have very poor memories for facts, but amazing capabilities in pattern recognition and visual/spatial memory. So if you need to remember some facts, one way to do it is to create a mind palace. You close your eyes and imagine yourself in a virtual space. On the countertop is the first thing you need to remember. Then, on the table, another fact – through the doorway, on the chair, another – and so on. By imagining yourself walking through the mind palace, you can quickly recall a huge catalog of information your brain would not otherwise be capable of storing and recalling so easily.
As an instrument design, Memory Palace does for analog video images something analogous – through feedback and complex routing, the frame becomes a vast wealth of temporal information that the analog signal has forgotten many times over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_lociThe method of loci (loci being Latin for "places") is a method of memory enhancement which uses visualizations with the use of spatial memory, familiar information about one's environment, to quickly and efficiently recall information. The method of loci is also known as the memory journey, memory palace, or mind palace technique. This method is a mnemonic device adopted in ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises (in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero's De Oratore, and Quintilian'...
Link: Method of loci
#3 — creatorlars · 2019-04-02
P.S. Let me know if that book is any good, I have not read it!
#4 — creatorlars · 2019-04-02
