The Mystery of Memory
As people age, the rate of dementia and Alzheimer's climbs.
It's not a pleasant prospect. Ronald Reagan had staff and loving wife to care for him. That's available only to very few.
So we try to excercise our minds. I put up lots of old photographs, watch old movies, look through college and highschool yearbooks, hum old tunes (off-key.)
Some feats of human memory are prodigious.
Chess grandmasters play 24 games "rapid transit" games simulaneously, blind-folded, against good players, relying only chess notation (Pawn to King Four). They typically win all or most of the games.
Concert pianists tickle the keys of a Grand Piano, 88 keys and three pedals, with their eyes closed.
Some people can even stroke the new computer keyboards, complete with F12, NumLocks, Sleep, Ctl-Alt-Delete and ^&*(%$#! signs. I dare use @ lest it trigger a crash.
How can that possibly be?
If you know, let me know,
Ben
It's not a pleasant prospect. Ronald Reagan had staff and loving wife to care for him. That's available only to very few.
So we try to excercise our minds. I put up lots of old photographs, watch old movies, look through college and highschool yearbooks, hum old tunes (off-key.)
Some feats of human memory are prodigious.
Chess grandmasters play 24 games "rapid transit" games simulaneously, blind-folded, against good players, relying only chess notation (Pawn to King Four). They typically win all or most of the games.
Concert pianists tickle the keys of a Grand Piano, 88 keys and three pedals, with their eyes closed.
Some people can even stroke the new computer keyboards, complete with F12, NumLocks, Sleep, Ctl-Alt-Delete and ^&*(%$#! signs. I dare use @ lest it trigger a crash.
How can that possibly be?
If you know, let me know,
Ben
posted by Ben Wattenberg at 10:20 AM
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