Ask HN: is "Matrix" style human aptitude possible?

6 points by eluos 12 years ago | 3 comments

Is it possible to disrupt how human beings learn? Have there been any demonstrations of a novel method of learning?

sam22 12 years ago |

Takes a bit of practice, but you can teach yourself to develop a photographic memory which might help you learn. The military's done it for years. How do I know this? If I told you I'd have to kill you.

http://www.mikemichalowicz.com/how-to-get-photographic-memor...

zamalek 12 years ago | |

Eidetic memory is vastly different from a memory aid/trick (and click bait). People with eidetic memory are quite literally biologically superior to the rest of us. While the TV series "Suits" is a fiction it isn't far from reality: my late grandmother had an eidetic memory and while she did not have the full range of abilities as the protagonist, she was able to recall any page of a book after rifling through it.

What is still up to debate is whether memories/knowledge can be electronically injected into our minds. I would say it is highly plausible at some distant point in the future, we are already coming to terms with electronically reading our minds.

dylanhassinger 12 years ago |

http://fourhourchef.com/