Giordano Bruno's Memory Wheels and How to Use Them - a talk by Martin Faulks on the Art of Memory

[@ivelisseperez4388]

Wow! Synchronicities! I've been contemplating about reading Giordano Bruno's work. Incredible information here. Outstanding work. Thank you!

[@crypticnomad]

This is extremely useful thank you! As I progress in my daily meditations I have began to notice that the thoughts the bubble up tend to actually be useful in some way. This almost feels like a "leveling up" in a game since these useful thoughts are still distracting me from why I am sitting there. What this has shown me is that I need to add a new type of meditation where I focus that "useful thought energy", or whatever you want to call it, on some specific subject. It almost seems obvious, like seeing a picture within a picture, that a memory wheel like the 26 letters at least, as well as additional symbols, can help focus the mind on a single subject to an extreme extent. I have been doing a lot of research in a pretty wide ranging and almost adhd spastic kind of way and somewhere along the way I stumbled on the "musical abacus" which is really two memory wheels viewed in a particular way. That lead to another thought about how an actual abacus could be used to encode things from a set of memory wheels. For example, one could have each digit in a number represent a section on a set of 5(for soroban) or 6(traditional abacus) wheels and the positions of each bead as a "yes/no" for the character(s), symbol(s), or whatever on that wheel. These characters, symbols, or whatever could themselves represent a number and then yet another abacus/wheel. Basically this could potentially be really useful for compressing a lot of data

[@linguamusic9180]

Thoughtfully presented and well comprehensive. Thank you Mr. Faulks. Looking forward to even more enlightening content!

[@zfolwick]

this is great! This is like an AND gate. I wonder if it's possible to adapt to weighted criterion in decision-making? Either way, thank you for making this! It appears that this came from a time before tables were used to represent data, and columns are represented by concentric circles, and values in those circles would be values in the column of table data. This representation appears to be a good framework for deeply exploring a given subject. I've worked with my daughter to make a pentagon with each of the 5 points representing types of people that she knows: Family, Classmates, Celebrities, Politicians, Historical Figures; and she places that inside of a wheel with the alphabet, and begins rotating. I'm starting to understand that there could be another set: birth, death, age; and a fourth: favorite color, hobbies, favorite song, love interest(s), etc; a fifth: beliefs, achievements, failures... So the alphabet wheel is the only real "general" column to jump-start a brain. Everything else you can make up as needed. Those 3rd and 4th wheels could be asked of any person in the pentagon (though some may not be relevant to academic discussion). I've been looking for a way to adapt this to chemistry (a subject I wasn't very good with in school). Thank you again for posting this. I had no idea!

[@KimBroadie]

This is extremely helpful

[@IntentionalGains]

I am not particularly familiar with memory wheels, but, alas, my will has interacted with the algorithm and directed me here. Let's proceed.

[@davidcdavenport]

Thanks Martin, this plugged a few gaps in my understanding. YOur effort is really appreciated 🙏

[@ellenmariemccurdy]

This is fascinating. Thank you so much.

[@rainbowchild63]

Thank you,Martin!

[@arturhashmi6281]

I always wondered how Sufi tradition Simiyya also known as rūḥaniyyah worked, becuase I do not know Arabic, now I realized It was probably similar mnemonic technique and Raymond Lull could actually inherited it from Moors, similar tools were used also by cryptographers like Trithemius or Alberti to make ciphers

[@Digitally_Faith]

Very intriguing!

[@fosezzle]

Fantastic, thank you

[@hectorpagan4812]

This is valuable info!

[@studywithmir1994]

Thanks man, really best video on it. Could you make a tutorial on how to make the wheel? Please.

[@Joshua.B.Buzzard]

This is great. Thinking of how to use this for contemplating and reviewing different aspects of various ideas. Following the major ideas of the Western world as proposed by Adler in thr Great Books collection, I'm wondering if i could come up with a multi tier review process. For example, the first idea is Angel. So we could have Angels in the OT, then Angels in the NT, biological speculation about Angels, and so on-building out a well rounded list which would cover many aspects of that idea. Then do thr same for Animal, the next on the list, and so on. This would be interesting with ideas like Oligarchy. This would also act as a learning aid in that it would show weakenesses in various thoughts.

[@BenjaminCollar]

The video ends abruptly during the discussion about habits-the wheel that addresses deciding whether to speak. Does it work for others. I was really interested to hear the rest!

[@MartinFaulks]

I just tested it and works for me.

[@BenjaminCollar]

@@MartinFaulks thank you. I’ll try on another client.

[@Susanzakho]

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[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

Thanks so much

[@GabrielLazzari-ku7he]

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[@knowone3031]

Hey this a good one.. Thanks again

[@FraterDeweyDecimilus]

Fantastic video. Except for the fact I can't get "Moi naymes Soimin! Oi lyke drawring!" out of my head now...

[@KimBroadie]

It's a Sunday afternoon in a cool Autumn November. I sit in my backyard and hear the key to bridging east west North South in a contemplative resurrection of a natural society. For that he was burned alive by the State.

[@abrahamlife]

Fantastic job Inspiring! What book of Bruno did you recommend to start?

[@frankfarrell]

Thanks for this. It's vwery well-researched and explained. I do have a question, though. At about 46 minutes you explain that you first of all memorised the two wheels before putting them into practice. I just wonder is there any need to memorise them. If you write down the contents of each wheel you can combine them in your practice immediately.

[@MartinFaulks]

There are a couple of problems with removing the memory element.1) You would need to stop and read each one as you went along and many of them are in themselves a list. 2) You would not have practiced contraction on the quality or made it part of your being. There was a belief that my memorising you imprinted it inside.

[@frankfarrell]

Thanks, Martin. :)@@MartinFaulks

[@williamcarrmusic]

I think this would've been even more helpful if the illustrations had more interacting gestures to efficiently imply which wheel does what and how.

[@MartinFaulks]

Do please suggest some better symbols for the various points.

[@chadthunderkoch9540]

@@MartinFaulks make your own, pick a topic that'd be easy to understand or relate to and animate them to show what you mean visually

[@ultraclaveshermetium5709]

@@chadthunderkoch9540 "do my homework for me" lol

[@Triplesteeple]

Is it possible to purchase the memory wheels... the actual physical wheels used in the video? Thanks.

[@stuhallett522]

Comes from the dynamo lettering machine. You can also use Knots in a string - made into a bracelet. Or even Your finger didgets / knuckles as in the old counting system, 12 count palm side, 12 count other side, 24 points of reference each side

[@Triplesteeple]

@@stuhallett522 thank you.

[@AClarke2007]

I wonder if the Voynich Manuscript is a memory system?

[@topdawg3359]

Reminds me of the keys of Solomon

[@ssoul1869]

Hello, hablaste sobre los encantamientos de cersei pero en mi idioma no logro traducirlo correctamente podrías escribirme el nombre de esos hechizos o encantamientos, por favor

[@cosmicman621]

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[@stevegovea1]

So Harry Potter beliefs... like all religions 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️