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svat
on Feb 24, 2024
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Ten years of remembering every day that passes (20...
Reminds me of a Borges story (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious
,
https://vigeland.caltech.edu/ist4/lectures/funes%20borges.pd...
) and the article also led me to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia
— “Price has stated that she, like Funes, views her memory as a curse”.
cryptonector
on Feb 26, 2024
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I came here for this, and I'm glad you beat me to it. I never knew about hyperthymesia though, and it seems shocking that there have been persons affected by it, and it sounds like Borges was in fact prescient.
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