By the time I was done reading the response, I obviously had questions of my own. So, I asked NotebookLM all of them, and had ...

In The Mind Map Book and other volumes, Buzan touts mind mapping for its benefits in improving memory, creativity, information capture, and other cognitive areas.

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There are even abstracts. In one of the book’s most amusing moments, Norwell pauses along the Dixon Entrance to examine the resident nudibranchs. “Nudis are gastropods,” he writes.

As a map of the medieval mind, however, it has few peers. I wonder if that isn’t the point about maps of fictitious places, too? They are maps of minds.