Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
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I just think that it's very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.
I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.
I used to take formal notes in lines of blue, and underline the key words in red, and I realised I needed only the key words and the idea. Then to bring in connections, I drew arrows and put in images and codes. It was a picture outside my head of what was inside my head - 'mind map' is the language my brain spoke.
If geography is prose, maps are iconography.
There's just something hypnotic about maps.
I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.
I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
To understand is to perceive patterns.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.