What my mother’s sticky notes show about the nature of the self

People who perform prodigious feats of memory (repeating a long series of numbers, for example) often make use of a technique called the ‘mind palace’, also known as the ‘method of loci’, the ‘Roman room’ and the ‘journey method’. The technique is ancient – versions are described by the Roman rhetoricians Cicero and Quintilian – […]

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