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Re:Memory Techniques from Vedic Learning [pdf] by scpedicini on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:01AM (#26211195)
you've obviously never played the game of telephone.

If anything, purely relying on oral transmission means that the further that knowledge moves away from its source, the further variations and slight changes that will occur... intentionally or unintentionally. It is the reason why when you try to collect old folk tales or mythological stories, it is difficult to figure out the canonical version of it.

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Re:Memory Techniques from Vedic Learning [pdf] by keiferski on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:42AM (#26211382)
We live in a culture that makes zero effort towards teaching memorization techniques. I’m sure if you had a bunch of memory champions play telephone, the end result would be pretty accurate.
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Re:Memory Techniques from Vedic Learning [pdf] by nathias on Sunday February 21, 2021 @04:50AM (#26212188)
Memory isn't the faculty that makes errors in that game, the errors come from misunderstanding and that's true for any oral and written text, but in the case of writing the misunderstanding doesn't mutate the original.
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