Our brain is working more like a muscle than a computer; it's wrong that once a info go in our brain then it will be there forever, the brain need to be exercised. The more often you use the neurons grappling with the information you want to commit to memory, the stronger those connections will get and the stronger your memory and understanding of that information will get.
Spaced repetition does this by firing the neurons over a long period of time.
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Spacing out the repetition, rather than cramming it into one session, is more effective. To use this learning technique:
Use spaced repetition to reinforce the memory in your brain. Space it out over a period of time and randomise the way you memorise information. That way, it makes you think about which concept to apply in which situation.
At the extremes consciousness can be a side-effect of information processing (neurons firing in our brain causing this feeling of "being me") or panpsychism, the idea that consciousness is fundamental to the structure of the universe (atoms are conscious).
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