Learning is Remembering

Article suggests that we can only keep up to four new concepts in our working memory, and that to truly learn something you have to commit those concepts into your memory, and then add on another new concept in your working memory.

Learning is intertwined with memory to the extent that they are almost the same thing. Learning cannot happen without a change to your memory. Everything we know about learning efficiently is directly related to memory - "good" teachers, "good" explanations, images, diagrams, maths problems, essays, practical assignments all are good for learning because they help move things into your long-term memory.

This also highlights why new concepts that connect to our existing memories are more easily brought into our memory, and then built on with additional concepts. 🤔

The analogue here to a computer using memory and storage is just too similar to ignore. 🧠