[KhoomeiK]

Memorization also forces you to "reduce dimensionality" in the data—find the underlying patterns of correlation and causality that cause the world to be structured the way it is. You can't feasibly fit every single event in the history of every country in the world into your head, but it becomes a lot more feasible once you extract a narrative that explains the data effectively.

Memorization implicitly requires learning and characterizing them entirely separately as modern education does is pretty faulty.

[agumonkey]

Absolutely, so does external storage (optimized note taking) btw. If you try to cram data on paper in succint way, you'll have to find redundancy, structure which ultimately is easier to store in your mind too.