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7.4. Classification: Making Sense of the World

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To understand the workings of memory better, particularly in regard to innovative thinking, let us go up a level or two, shifting gear in order better understand how we make sense of the world around us.
 

The parts of this section are:

• 7.4.1. Classification: Chunking the World
• 7.4.2. Classification: Languaging Chunks
• 7.4.3. Classification: Short-term Memory
• 7.4.4. Classification: Long-term Memory
• 7.4.5. Classification: Class-ification
• 7.4.6. Classification: Rapid Classification
• 7.4.7. Classification: Big Patterns: Mental Models

The other sections in this chapter:

• 7.1. A Quick History of Brain Science
• 7.2. The Real Parts of the Brain
• 7.3. How We Think: Patterns of the Mind
• 7.4. Classification: Making Sense of the World
• 7.5. Association: Just Like That
• 7.6. Invention 'So What?'

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