• Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    you need GPS to go to the place youv'e been multiple times, because you have GPS. Your brain does a funny thing where it doesnt feel like it has to remember shit when you have the answer infront of you on a computer/phone/device cause it is basically using that device as its short term memory.

      • Malfeasant@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Which is a good thing, at least for how my mind works- leaving it up to the internet to fill in the details frees up space in my head to retain a greater breadth of vague knowledge...

    • yata@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Same with phone numbers. We used to remember them, or at least a handful of the most important ones.

      Nowadays it took me years just to memorise my own.