Science behind the class

Surfing through Digg.com and i found this piece on the science behind the all-might memory.
It's interesting how easy it is to forget (kind of a topical term I guess considering) that there is actual science behind memory. After reading this piece its actually much easier to think of it as memory palaces and quiet desks. I mean I am not very scientifically inclined but it's far easier for me to wrap my head around the stuff Shaman Sexson has to say than this talk of elongated hippocampus and such.

It also got me thinking about what's more useful. While the magical and divine ideas behind what we learn in class is interesting to think and discuss, as an athiest its still just interesting to think about. The scientific stuff behind memory has more obvious real-world applications. alzheimers research is something that comes from the science of memory.

I guess it all comes back to a word that was used a lot towards the beginning of the semester, esoteric, the information we have been taught has little application on a mass scale but on a personal intellectual level it is incredibly useful and interesting.

So in the end I am most certainly not saying anything bad about the class but just hoping to remind everyone that the memory is more than just something that pulls tricks like remembering fifty independent film or drinking games, but something that we may take for granted until someone we love can't even remember who you are.