The first page is at least 90% on topic. But that's beside the point. ClockWork was offering courtesy and respect to the Topic's Author from his own position and action and that is simply good conduct but you chiding him about it being redundant is not at all good form and I can't see any sound reason for jumping in like that. One person offering thier respect does not mean everyone afterwards is excused in commiting a similar transgress and can just rudely proceed without a word of acknowledment. In RL such oversights have led to bloody conflicts on a massive scale, crazy as that sounds, and why the skills of an effective diplomant can be worth their weight in treasure and many times over in lives preserved for respect given and not witheld.Hesterax wrote: ....
Don't really need to say that this question is off topic, it already is off topic since the first page.
Very perceptive of you to see the architectural connection, ClockWork.ClockWork wrote:Off topic, Rman Virgil, are you some sort of god? Because every post you make is made of bewilderment, and beauty. It seems to me, every time you post, lies something so fascinating to read that I cannot stop until I have digested it all. Don't know why, but you have an architectural view about how you put words together.
There is one and it is actually *On Topic* in my experience with the WZ Research / Tech Tree and as a vital precursor to making effective use of queueing.Here is how it all connects.
Insatiable curiosity leads to learning about a lot of different stuff. To get the full benefits of all that learning you have to be able to remember details. As engineers have said for generations - "God's in the details."
Years and years ago, to help me improve my recall of details on anything I learned that I felt important not to forget, I explored different memory techniques or what they call mneumonic devices. Of all the various mneumonic devices, one of my favorite is called the "Memory Palace" ( aka, "Method of Loci") which goes all the way back to 55 BCE and one of Cicero's treatises on Rhetoric and was further developed during the Middle Ages before Gutenberg invented movable type to set in motion the revolution of mass producing books which, among other things, serve as memory storage devices for your brain to access knowledge outside the confines of your skull.
Basically in a "Memory Palace" you visualize the layout of an architectural structure in your mind and you store what you want to remember in the various rooms and utilize the corridors and stairways for any significant connections between the bits of information. So when you want to remember details of certain subjects you've studied, you bring to mind, enter, and walk the "Memory Palace" you created out of your learning experiences.
When I write non-fiction I draw on my "Memory Palaces" so it makes sense that their architectural structure would be reflected in the structure of my writeing. (Writeing fiction, on the other hand, is an entirely different modus and making use my Memory Palaces is infrequent.)
So you may ask - why use Memory Palaces when you can use books, a journal or, better yet, a smart phone with a ubiquitous and convenient connection to the Internet's vast repository of the total of humanity's knowledge (on line) ?
A couple reasons.
First, the brain is like a muscle in the sense that the more intensely you use it, the stronger it gets - specifically, in the number neuronal connections and the layers of myelin insulation tissue grown around the neurons. Investment in Memory Palaces and syntopical book reading can do that... the whole smart phone tapping through links thing cannot and, indeed, can have the opposite effect on your cognitive faculties, that is degrade them, with exclusive use.
Second - wit, spontaneity, improvisation, etc.; with these powerful cognitive modalities and expressions you have to be able to rely, at any time, only on what you can draw on from your brain instantaneously.
Now we come to the connection to this thread's Topic - Research Queueing.
Even with research queueing in place you still have to learn the tech tree in order to make informed and effective decisions about what exactly to queue up. I imagine there are any number of ways to learn it, I just chose to create a Memory Palace which inturn informs the structure of my posts.
There is another Memory Palace connection for me related to both WZ and a classic Sci Novel called "Farenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (that'd be the temp at which paper catches fire). Basically you have this dystopian world were the totalitarian authorities are attempting to burn all the books in existence, because if you can control the past you can control the present and the future. Of course there is an underground resistence movement and the task of each member is to commit to memory a single book.
A couple years back when I first thought our world was headed to some form of global collapse ala WZ, I decided to commit to Memory Palace one of my favorite works of literature - "The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel" by Nikos Kazantzakis; an epic poem of 33,333 lines of metered verse werein Nikos continues the story of Ulysses from were Homer leaves off. I figured I already have the requisite survial skills but to also be able to carry that work in my head in such a world and be able extemporize it, well, that would be something more than bare subsistence because man does not live by bread alone. Even now, in our pre-collapse world, it's a cool thing that comes in handy with the female of the species and also belays brain atrophy some, like any amount of working out pushes back getting soft, slow and unhealthy.
The brain is a marvel that can hold more potential unique synaptic connections than there are particles in the universe. And what about Beethoven composing some his greatest orchestral works AFTER he went deaf. It's a damn shame so many choose to underutilize it.
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Same to this threads author for allowing our tangents to his topic.