More on Memory and on Thinking

Earlier, I wrote about Dr. Samuel Renshaw, who researched how we use our senses but stumbled into some interesting things about memory and learning along the way. That essay, found here, is part of a truly bizarre site, Alexei Panshin’s The Abyss of Wonder. Panshin is the author of Heinlein in Dimension, among other things, which is why his site has both an essay on Renshaw and Heinlein and, as a follow-up, the article about Renshaw in particular.

Part of language learning is, well, learning language. But another part is getting your brain around different ways of thinking about and approaching the world. For some people, it can be helpful to try out a whole lot of wacky ideas as a way of staying in mental form for the quirks you encounter in your language studies. If you are or have a sense that you might be one of those people, check out the site.Also, for a more skeptical approach to Renshaw and a more detailed look at Heinlein’s ideas about language, check out “Tenser,” said the Tensor.