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Hello again.
This message may have nothing to do with the core concepts of PR. But I have been wondering if PR can be anyhow related to eidetic memory. Remember when Paul Scheele said that with our subconscious mind, we could process beyond 1000s bits of information at a second while we can use up to 7 plus or minus 2 bits of that conciously? Sounds like we have not been using other parts of our brain.
Also PR is mentally photographing printed page and activating it. Do we all lack the photographic memory because we have weak recalling power?
As a personal comment, it seems finding eidetic memory(or photographic memory)in our hidden potential can come true when we use more parts of our brain(maybe subconciously?) given the fact we only use 2-4% of our brain. Just a comment.

Finally, it is Friday.
Have a nice weekend!
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[This message has been edited by klizark007 (edited May 21, 2004).]

I've been thinking on photographic memory these last few days.
I was going to post a thread, but will follow this one.

It does interest me very much.I know that the course says that PR isn't giving you photographic memory, but I've been thinking that as we use our whole brains, a photographic memory may arise.

There's been people who can recall everything that they ever read, William James Sidis for example.

I don't think that they're one off's, and nobody else can do that.I think that everybody can as long as you tap into the right parts of your brain.

Thanks!

We all have an eidetic memory alright. Fortunately our mind had taken to processing information faster than we can follow it.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a ttoal mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.

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wlohe. amzanig huh?

Try reading that if you don't use your "photographic memory processor"

Alex

I think that Betty Edwards and 'drawing on the right side of the brain' might have the answer here.

Briefly, she explains that people have difficulty drawing because instead of actually really looking and seeing what's before us, we just let our left-brains fill in what we think we see. So instead of actually seeing a chair we think 'it's a chair seen a million of those before' and then fill in details using our 'generic'
ideas of what a chair is.

So when it comes to eidetic memory we don't remember what we saw because when we try our left-brain fills in with the generic information. And probably, we never really properly looked at the thing in the first place!

What this means to memory development i'm not sure.

But Betty Edwards' book is wonderful and everyone should read it!

Have fun!

Nick

Thank you for sharing comments. They were all very helpful.
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Just thought I’d post a quick point - do any of you actually think that evolution would have allowed us to walk around with an incredibly energy hungry organ (I believe the human brain requires more energy to run than any other organ - including the heart), in such a vulnerable place, if we didn’t use it to max capacity? Nature has a wonderful way of optimising performance – as functions/bodily features become unnecessary, natural selection removes them. Vestigial tails anyone?

Cheers,
Will

So are you saying we already use our brains to their full performance?

More a case of we have grown up from having a slow eidetic memory to having a fast one so that we don't even recognise we are using our eidetic memory. If we want to see the pictures we have to slow the motion down. Bit like a movie. All flashing past our eyes we have rapid motion... to look at one frame or single picture we have to stop the movement of the film.

Alex