A much better article is "The Brain That Changed Everything" [1], by the grandson of the surgeon who erased H.M.'s memory. It has lots of details that I've neve

A much better article is "The Brain That Changed Everything" [1], by the grandson of the surgeon who erased H.M.'s memory. It has lots of details that I've never seen anywhere else. There was one TV series he loved to watch, too. A sitcom. All in the Family. It is a show, essentially, about a man who is mystified by a world and culture and family that change all around him while he remains the same, a man who digs in his heels, who holds on to the past, refusing to be dragged into the present. The part that gets me the most is when they wake H.M. up and ask him what he was dreaming about (at this point no one even knew if he DID dream), and he says "what I could have been ..." [1] http://www.esquire.com/print-this/henry-molaison-brain-1110?page=all# http://www.esquire.com/print-this/henry-molaison-brain-1110?...