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"Neurons that fire together, wire together"
I came across this while reading the book Fluent Forever. It has since inspired me to create a flashcard deck that does not descriminate by topics. A single unified flashcard deck in Anki (my SRS program of choice) seems to yield many benefits.
It has changed the app from being a language study program to something more preternatural in my life- a memory lockbox. As long as I put it in there, it is highly unlikely I will ever forget the card. That is, afterall, the beauty of SRS. It takes the understanding of the forgetting curve and selectively brings back cards that are about to be forgotten. Having facts, languages, and pictures intertwine makes things difficult for sure. Because I can't just "set" a mode for my mind and just study that. However, this has the benefit of allowing more interdisciplinary thought and makes it easier to remember language lessons.
It also makes my daily flashcard routine a lot more varied and enjoyable.
I was considering Guy DeBord's "Society of the Spectacle" from the lens of the food that we eat. It seems convenient to think that the reason that we have the number of folks who are comfortable eating meat in the regularity that we do because we live so distanced from the production. I had thus thought that if folks saw the meat for what it was, i.e the pig in the farm and not just the cubes of pink meat you buy at the store, then we would likely have fewer people eating meat. But the following statement was made to me by my cousin.
why stop at the pig, why are those the units by which you measure the spectacle
Why indeed? It seems like the reasonable stopping point because it is an organism. But if your only concern is the caloric value of the thing, then this line that we have been drawing from us to the thing we eat might continue until the meat is a bundle of molecules, and the molecules that get digested / processed to form Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) in your body. And if that's the stopping point for your spectacle, then this could actually mean an increase in the amount of meat consumption because meat is typically more energy dense than plants and such. This lead to the questions of what normative choices that a philosopher has made. Why this and not that?
