When I was studying #psychology I learned about the theory of semantic memory - how people will remember the *meaning* of something better than raw facts.
This is certainly true for me. I can remember long strings of numbers if I have time to give them a context. And this must be what mnemonics and memory palaces do: give data a semantic structure and context to help us remember it.
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