tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post6945431744573485563..comments2024-03-22T21:02:55.051+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: Inside Sherlock's mind palaceGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-80439444038608598702014-04-09T20:35:24.235+12:002014-04-09T20:35:24.235+12:00It's a reversal of the forward anachronistic H...It's a reversal of the forward anachronistic Holmes of Conan Doyle, to make him backwards anachronistic. His brain is thus modeled as a computer, with data and processing of data being separate functions.<br /><br />The forward anachronism being how fast Holmes could make his "deductions" from his memory store, like an analytic engine! He could do hundreds a second!! The backwards Ben Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015337296196701141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-18135605669076978312014-04-08T11:08:58.166+12:002014-04-08T11:08:58.166+12:00Yes. Although I do wonder if he might have been to...Yes. Although I do wonder if he might have been toying with Watson a bit there. But it's an intriguing and very of its time idea, that in order to fit the phenomenal amount of information he needed to make scientific deductions upon human affairs, Holmes would have to train himself to ignore (or actively forget) entire knowledge domains that ground ordinary people's basic understanding ofGiovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-60874064787917161612014-04-08T10:08:03.932+12:002014-04-08T10:08:03.932+12:00Slightly OTT, cos I haven't seen the current s...Slightly OTT, cos I haven't seen the current show but when I recently reread Study of Scarlet it seemed to me that the Holmes there is quite different from the man in the later stories. In the first iteration of Holmes, he comes across as far more perverse than later.<br />Take this, for instance: <br /><br />'Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next toJeff Sparrownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-24899171956116290172014-04-08T01:45:45.059+12:002014-04-08T01:45:45.059+12:00Mind palace = BLOWNMind palace = BLOWNStephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766545363197498449noreply@blogger.com