It sounds more to me like the techniques world memory champion Dominic O&#x27;Brien [0] uses to memorize lists and other events on the fly.<p>His inspiration was (I believe) Aristotle (if not Aristotle, another ancient Greek) who, after a church collapsed, recalled the names of every person who was present at the moment of collapse.<p>His filing cabinet method and Aristotle&#x27;s (slash O&#x27;Brien&#x27;s) memory palace methods sound very similar in that they give each memory a concrete place to exist and relate the memories to other memories around them thus securing their place within the information hierarchy.<p>I&#x27;m sure there is more to it than he says, and if I had to guess, I&#x27;d imagine it&#x27;s a very sensory process (as sensory perceptions provide something much more analog to grasp onto than the relatively digital description a person can provide with words).<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dominic_O%27Brien" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dominic_O%27Brien</a>