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There is no such thing as "Photographic Memory", as we do not even have "Photographic site" All we have for sight is: A few degrees of focus (~3-5) that we qu
by johnvschmitt 13y ago
There is no such thing as "Photographic Memory", as we do not even have "Photographic site"
All we have for sight is: A few degrees of focus (~3-5) that we quickly jump around to get an idea of a scene, & then we (very importantly) MAP this data to an internal model.
So, when someone says, they can fill in all the details, they are doing that from an internal model, which was only partially supported by earlier sight. Much of their memory can be wrong.
More importantly, it's a huge misrepresentation to think that the human eye works like a CCD array/sensor/camera.