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.
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@article{arxiv.2303.11944,
title = {Representational Tenets for Memory Athletics},
author = {Kevin Schmidt and Othalia Larue and Ray Kulhanek and Dylan Flaute and Razvan Veliche and Christian Manasseh and Nelson Dellis and Scott Clouse and Jared Culbertson and Steve Rogers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.11944},
year = {2023}
}