https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-maps-out-ideas-and-memories-like-spaces-20190114/

Our language is riddled with spatial metaphors for reasoning, and for memory in general

Grid cells provide a longer-range coordinate system for determining position in the absence of external cues. Researchers think the brain may use a similar system to navigate through mental "spaces" of abstract knowledge and memory.

This article provides a bit of support for my baseless speculation here https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5T9GPWFL/p1595580201303800?thread_ts=1595571049.299600&cid=C5T9GPWFL What I really want to know is what happens when people think about abstract structures that can't map to physical space, for example things which disobey the triangle inequality, does this mean you can't use the entorhinal cortex to process it?

Honestly, this to me feels like one of the most potent FoC frontiers - using space in machines (displays, location of information) to map to and leverage spatially-based abilities in the mind

Yes, I completely agree. Designing to make use of real human biology is the next big thing. The founder of DeepMind has got a PhD on the hippocampus, so they would be well placed to build amazing tools, but they are solely focused on AI

BV does a great dive into communicating / representing information spacially in Magic Ink. If you haven't read it yet, you should! (And if it's too long, just skim the images and read the nearby explanations) http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/