Post by Sjur Midttun (admin) on Sept 28, 2024 15:59:42 GMT
EXPANDED MEMORY PALACES
A memory palace is like a house with many rooms. Each room has furniture and objects that serve as pegs. Attach keywords you want to remember to these pegs and you need only go back into that room, in your mind's eye, to see what you need to remember.
No need for a real house.
But you do not have to choose your actual home, or even an actual house. And if you base a memory palace on a house that exists in real life you are limited to how many rooms, and objects inside each room, you have.
This sets a limit to how much information you can link together if you limit yourself to things you can literally see in your home.
What is the major system?
The major system is a mnemonic tool created by Johann Just Winckelmann and/or Pierre Herigone. It is similar to a memory palace in that it is a series of interconnected keywords in a particular sequence.
In addition, the major system uses phonetics, and assigns one human sound to each number from zero to nine so that we may memorize numbers we have turned into sounds.
The rule is this:
t or d
n
m
r
l
sh
k
f,v
p,b
Then, it uses these sounds to create words that may serve as objects representing each number 0 to 100.
Objects like tie (1), knee (2), ma (3), rye (4), law (5), shoe (6), etc - just to mention the numbers one to six.
Benefits major system
The major benefit of the original system, in addition to being able to memorize numbers, is that you can memorize numbered lists. Everybody knows how to count to 100, as long as you know the objects that represent the numbers, The Major System can be used to remember keywords in a sequeence, but also out of sequence if you need to.
It is perfect for quickly, and securely, storing sequences of information that you need available in your memory. Like the natural sequence of a walk. Like chapter of a book, and sub-chapters of each chapter.
Or, this could be keywords from articles, speeches, or other types of data where the sequences are important. It is also a way to memorize what is written on certain pages in a book, newspaper, or magazine.
Number one is TIE
The mnemonic object for number one in the system is either: tie, toe, tee, ode, Dee, ad, day, audio, dua, exit, aid, auto, dye, hat, tow, die, eat, hut, tea, or whichever word you choose that contains only one consonant, either T or D as the phonetic rules described above suggests.
And the norm is to choose one of these suggestions as a permanent peg for the number one.
Make a room out of the mnemonic objects
But this is how we simply expand on The Major System, and turn in into a Memory Palace.
A simple object, a peg, is not as efficient a memory tool as an entire room which can store many pegs in itself. Is there a way of turning the mnemonic peg-words/numbers from one to 100 of The Major System into rooms that serve as pieces inside a giant, 100 room memory palace?
Yes.
Imagine if, in addition to the mnemonic object, you also decide on, and prepare, a place to represent the numbers?
Find a place, in your own memory, for each object
Let me explain: In addition to the original mnemonic object, typically the word “tie” for number one, "knee" for 2, "ma" for 3 etc, you can also use your past experiences, your true memory, to organically find a place that somehow is connected to the object. Just think about it, and let your own mind come up with a place linked to each object/each number, from tie, knee, ma, rye, law, shoe, cow, etc.
Like a store that sells ties, in this example.
In Norway, where I grew up, we had a store called Tie Rack in the nineties. I haven’t thought much about this store for 30 years but when I thought about this new system and simply used my past experiences as a tool, I suddenly remembered this place.
I dug it out from my memory vault.
Each store or point of reference can be used as a keyword-holder in a mnemonic system.
The memories were faded, so finding new pegs inside each loci was difficult. But simply using one's own memories about places can give you a perfect mnemonic device. For this exercise you need only go through the list once, for the first room/place you think about (from your own organic memory) when you go through the numbers/mnemonic objects one to 100.
-forza!
Sjur Midttun
A memory palace is like a house with many rooms. Each room has furniture and objects that serve as pegs. Attach keywords you want to remember to these pegs and you need only go back into that room, in your mind's eye, to see what you need to remember.
No need for a real house.
But you do not have to choose your actual home, or even an actual house. And if you base a memory palace on a house that exists in real life you are limited to how many rooms, and objects inside each room, you have.
This sets a limit to how much information you can link together if you limit yourself to things you can literally see in your home.
What is the major system?
The major system is a mnemonic tool created by Johann Just Winckelmann and/or Pierre Herigone. It is similar to a memory palace in that it is a series of interconnected keywords in a particular sequence.
In addition, the major system uses phonetics, and assigns one human sound to each number from zero to nine so that we may memorize numbers we have turned into sounds.
The rule is this:
t or d
n
m
r
l
sh
k
f,v
p,b
Then, it uses these sounds to create words that may serve as objects representing each number 0 to 100.
Objects like tie (1), knee (2), ma (3), rye (4), law (5), shoe (6), etc - just to mention the numbers one to six.
Benefits major system
The major benefit of the original system, in addition to being able to memorize numbers, is that you can memorize numbered lists. Everybody knows how to count to 100, as long as you know the objects that represent the numbers, The Major System can be used to remember keywords in a sequeence, but also out of sequence if you need to.
It is perfect for quickly, and securely, storing sequences of information that you need available in your memory. Like the natural sequence of a walk. Like chapter of a book, and sub-chapters of each chapter.
Or, this could be keywords from articles, speeches, or other types of data where the sequences are important. It is also a way to memorize what is written on certain pages in a book, newspaper, or magazine.
Number one is TIE
The mnemonic object for number one in the system is either: tie, toe, tee, ode, Dee, ad, day, audio, dua, exit, aid, auto, dye, hat, tow, die, eat, hut, tea, or whichever word you choose that contains only one consonant, either T or D as the phonetic rules described above suggests.
And the norm is to choose one of these suggestions as a permanent peg for the number one.
Make a room out of the mnemonic objects
But this is how we simply expand on The Major System, and turn in into a Memory Palace.
A simple object, a peg, is not as efficient a memory tool as an entire room which can store many pegs in itself. Is there a way of turning the mnemonic peg-words/numbers from one to 100 of The Major System into rooms that serve as pieces inside a giant, 100 room memory palace?
Yes.
Imagine if, in addition to the mnemonic object, you also decide on, and prepare, a place to represent the numbers?
Find a place, in your own memory, for each object
Let me explain: In addition to the original mnemonic object, typically the word “tie” for number one, "knee" for 2, "ma" for 3 etc, you can also use your past experiences, your true memory, to organically find a place that somehow is connected to the object. Just think about it, and let your own mind come up with a place linked to each object/each number, from tie, knee, ma, rye, law, shoe, cow, etc.
Like a store that sells ties, in this example.
In Norway, where I grew up, we had a store called Tie Rack in the nineties. I haven’t thought much about this store for 30 years but when I thought about this new system and simply used my past experiences as a tool, I suddenly remembered this place.
I dug it out from my memory vault.
Each store or point of reference can be used as a keyword-holder in a mnemonic system.
The memories were faded, so finding new pegs inside each loci was difficult. But simply using one's own memories about places can give you a perfect mnemonic device. For this exercise you need only go through the list once, for the first room/place you think about (from your own organic memory) when you go through the numbers/mnemonic objects one to 100.
-forza!
Sjur Midttun