Paper ID: 2303.11944

Representational Tenets for Memory Athletics

Kevin Schmidt, Othalia Larue, Ray Kulhanek, Dylan Flaute, Razvan Veliche, Christian Manasseh, Nelson Dellis, Scott Clouse, Jared Culbertson, Steve Rogers

We describe the current state of world-class memory competitions, including the methods used to prepare for and compete in memory competitions, based on the subjective report of World Memory Championship Grandmaster and co-author Nelson Dellis. We then explore the reported experiences through the lens of the Simulated, Situated, and Structurally coherent Qualia (S3Q) theory of consciousness, in order to propose a set of experiments to help further understand the boundaries of expert memory performance.

Submitted: Feb 22, 2023