It can expand albeit not indefinitely or it can contract depending on how we use it in other words our memory.
Brain attic elementary.
The brain attic holmes s own metaphor for how we store information and organize knowledge provides the premise to begin to think like sherlock by optimizing your mental resources.
When holmes was originally speaking of the brain attic he was basically talking about the brain as a space for knowledge and not an actual mental construct for memorization.
Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain attic.
Unlike a physical attic the structure of the brain attic isn t altogether fixed.
He is suffering from post concussion syndrome a condition that will interfere with his ability to do his job and even to be himself.
This scientific method of mind makes use of the brain as an attic in the sense that the space in the brain is a finite resource.
To learn lots you must also discard lots this so that it does not fill up and start pushing out things you would have preferred keeping.
The brain has a certain space.
The human brain is like an attic.
The sixth season of elementary cbs s modern day take on the legendary duo of holmes and watson recently debuted with the revelation that sherlock holmes s mental health has taken a hit.
The attic theory of the brain as for example popularized in contemporary culture by sherlock holmes in the tv series elementary is basically.
I suspect that that the method of loci the older name for the mind palace technique was actually used by hannibal lechter before a holmes first did.
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Every one of us has a vast storehouse of general information in their mind.
And even the person of the most careless observation has mechanically stored away potentially valuable information whose existence they may be completely oblivious to.
Posted jan 06 2013.
We know things about every subject that has ever held our attention to any degree.