Jamie's Blog » memory http://www.angelforge.org/wordpress My life is words. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:35:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Total Recall: The Woman Who Can’t Forget http://www.angelforge.org/wordpress/mind/total-recall-the-woman-who-cant-forget/ http://www.angelforge.org/wordpress/mind/total-recall-the-woman-who-cant-forget/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:43:53 +0000 Jamie http://www.angelforge.org/wordpress/?p=1185 Wired has an incredibly interesting article on a woman with a perfect memory. Its interesting that she’s otherwise a very normal person and not any sort of savant.

So when I hear about Price’s feats, my mind boggles. From the perspective of evolution, finding a human being with memory that works with the precision of a computer would be like finding someone with bones made of steel. The type of memory system we have—in technical terms, context-dependent rather than location-addressable—has been around for several hundred million years. The existence of a human brain that works completely differently is astronomically unlikely.

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