anki helps plant a thought

• It is usually the case that when we initially get an idea for something or think about a topic for the first time, if we don't pay attention to the thought, we most likely will forget it after a couple of days; as long as the object that inspired the thought is absent.
• This is a normal. It is not undesirable. But, sometimes, it is desirable to hold on to the thought. Sort of, rooting the thought (or the idea) in the mind.
• SRS systems can be imagined as tools that make this possible.
• The mental model or metaphor of "planting" is particularly interesting because it is, for now, obviously impossible to artificially push a thought into the mind (as in the fiction, Inception) but the process that comes close to achieving this is one with the technology that affords a repeated gardening/planting of the idea in the mind.

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