sketerpot comments on Open Thread, June 16-30, 2012 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: OpenThreadGuy 15 June 2012 04:45AM

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Comment author: pengvado 16 June 2012 12:22:41PM *  2 points [-]

'clumped' into personal-things and general-knowledge things so that we can lose one without losing the other

Are you sure that your example is personal vs general, rather than episodic vs procedural? The latter distinction much more obviously benefits from different encodings or being connected to different parts of the brain.

Comment author: tgb 17 June 2012 06:47:15PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure of anything regarding this - all I know is that it tells me a little bit, not very much, and that it would tell someone better versed in this more.