Sherlock Holmes Mind Attic

I consider that a man s brain originally is like a little empty attic and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Sherlock holmes mind attic.

A mind palace certainly sounds grander befitting holmes and his outsized ego as watson notes in season 2 of sherlock. When holmes was originally speaking of the brain attic he was basically talking about the brain as a space for knowledge and not an actual mental construct for memorization. So too does our mind attic continue to take in and discard items until the. For sherlock holmes a person s brain attic really is an incredibly concrete physical space.

Sherlock holmes mind palace however isn t the typical type of storage. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. 141 quotes from a study in scarlet sherlock holmes 1. Https bigth ink newvideo join big think edge for ex.

I suspect that that the method of loci the older name for the mind palace technique was actually used by hannibal lechter before a holmes first did.