The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by kanzure on Monday June 26, 2017 @08:18PM (#14641554)

You could stripe the memory across multiple different people who are responsible for smaller fragments. Each person can be responsible for some number of shared fragments. See your issued handbook, subsection "Surviving information storage in ancient times". (They could also just write it down, they had that.)

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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by polm23 on Monday June 26, 2017 @10:01PM (#14642029)

I take it you're joking, but some vedas have features that work like error correcting codes that help them survive oral transmission unchanged.

http://www.hindupedia.com/en/Mathematics_of_the_Vedas#Error_...

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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by kanzure on Monday June 26, 2017 @11:20PM (#14642348)

Not joking at all. Thank you for the link.

I recently proposed error correction codes for an entirely separate purpose: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/enzymaticsynthesis/WvDidIldm...

I would like to also add my support for some of the ideas expressed earlier in the thread regarding the questions around whether literacy negatively impacts human memory, especially in children or in studied aboriginal populations. There are even studies that show that the vividness of mental imagery is reduced in people who wear eyeglasses: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/imagery/Refractive%20e...

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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by knodi123 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:34AM (#14645721)

> They could also just write it down, they had that.

Of course. That's why I stipulated a pre-literate society.

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