Help to Formally Update Mnemonic Classification and Nomenclature

[thinkaboutthebible (Doug)]

@swiftdeck, I applied my lens to memory systems for you. After 25 years of coding and analysis you realize that models don’t mean much unless you can find a way to test them. And software is a harsh test. Most software before Object Oriented coding in the 2000s got to a point where the size of the application made any updates impossible. The classification of the entities were mostly taxonomies of data types and led to difficulties as you tried apply several different entities to a real world problem. The phrase “death by taxonomy” pointed to a necessary change in the perspective of software models that concentrated not on traits but on actions or behaviors so that the model better reflected reality.

I ended up creating a rough OO model of mnemonic software as a cognitive process for the computer to understand the systems and data structures that would generate the categorization that I had grasped in my Memory systems overview. It’s a good fit. My glossary is a good fit. It is all consistent which was my goal.

It also helped my clarify a curriculum for education as the process would be built up from the building blocks that are modeled in the class diagram. And I’m a retired professor with a 183-page document to explain what it means so I can teach others. But it’s changed much over the last few years.

I use some graphics like the key-value Tinker Toy models you have as well. But I think to grasp the scope of what systems people use today, the taxonomy approach will never be sufficient unless you want just a general description to focus on traits for your research. Take a look at the topic I started for the software model:

Software OO model for memory systems

For any programmer that would like to have an OO design model for developing a system around the entities of mnemonic systems, I put together the basic UML class diagram that would direct your creation of classes. It’s rough and would be a lot of work to implement, going through many changes as it was developed, but it gives you a sense of the extent and nature of the entities involved. The objects created out of this would fall in place with the categorization of my Memory Systems overview. Fee…

That and the Memory systems overview should give you a good idea of the differences in our models. If you want, I also wanted to break down your medical YouTube illustration into my datatypes like I’ve done for many people here if it will help you see it as a visual sentence.

Having specific questions like you offered at the beginning post was a great way to have a dialog. Let me know what I can explain or help you see the differences as there are so many working pieces here.

Thanks for all the psychology references. I’m working my way through Worthen and Hunt’s Mnemonology which is wonderful, but didn’t see much to help me in Bellezza’s model. I’ll go through it one more time though.