On 19-Jan-09 16:37, Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
> 
>> Try writing out every word you know :-)
> 
> I did this once. In fact, just nouns. You know what? I know a crapload 
> of words!! o_O
> 
> If you sit down and actually try to record every single iota of 
> information in your brain, it's really quite surprising how much is in 
> there. I don't think people realise this...
Sometimes I hear a piece of music that I haven't heard in a long time 
but had it e.g. on a cassette tape once. I still know every tick and 
speck of noise and what it faded into. When hearing a new arrangement of 
a familiar song I usually get it after a few lines and then remember 
often what line comes next. So for hundreds if not thousands of songs I 
both remember the instrumentation and errors, implying that I have at 
least a 'fourier transform' recorded and I have also stored the meaning, 
which is IIRC in a totally different place in the brain. Oh and I also 
do remember the video clip when hearing just the song.

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