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How does he know to look at his smartphone? How does he know how to look at his smartphone? My phone in 2005 was a flip-phone and I wouldn't have even known how

• refurb 6y ago
  If you start digging into amnesia, you start to see some really weird things about which memories are retained versus those lost. Short term versus long term memories is one distinction (and seems intuitive), but you'll see things like selective long term memory loss - they might forget where they've lived for 10 years, but remember people they met back then. It's really fascinating as it gives some insights into how memory is organized and stored within the brain. Things that you'd imagine are processed the same (what your home looks like versus your spouse's face), are actually very different memories and handled in different parts of the brain.
• emteycz 6y ago
  There were devices alike smartphones in 2005. Pretty popular in Germany too. Maybe he had one of these, or just has a dumb phone (most had note taking abilities and calendars and notifications) but the editor changed it? Sony Ericsson had some very powerful phones, and Nokia too, both very popular back then. You could even run apps (J2ME), I had one for public transit schedules and one for school grades and timetables. This one was wildly popular in Europe, earlier models had similar functionalities: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_K750 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_K750