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Man's rare ability may unlock secret of memory

• gojomo 18y ago
  Shades of Jorge Luis Borges' 'Funes, the Memorious': http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~morton/bigidea/funes.txt http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~morton/bigidea/funes.txt
  • daniel-cussen 18y ago
    Upvote Borges reference!
• wave 18y ago
  "Give Brad Williams a date, and he can usually tell you not only what he was doing but what world events happened that day ... it seems to indicate there's no -- or not much -- intentional calculation going on" It seems to me that his memory is indexed by date.
• bigtoga 18y ago
  Why is this here? Put this on reddit or digg but not here.