The more we know the better we reason
A lot of life involves reasoning: taking this information you have and making hypotheses that connect different pieces in a way that provides a deeper understanding of them.
The more information you have muscle memory for, the more you can use to reason about. This is why having more knowledge generally helps you to tackle more complex problems.
If you have memorized knowledge you have also pre-processed it in a way that aligns with how you think, thus helping you during your reasoning.
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I have always been against memorization but this article has changed my view on it, especially considering the examples of software engineers that are just searching on the web for any problem they have.
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