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I wonder whether she really remembers every minute detail of every moment of her life, or just has the ability to imagine plausible details and an inability to know what she doesn’t remember, instead her imagination seamlessly filling in the details?
Individuals with hyperthymesia can recall extensive details of their own lives, along with public events that hold personal significance.[7] They often describe their memories as uncontrollable associations: when presented with a date, they immediately “see” a vivid depiction of that day without conscious effort.[8] These memories are strikingly detailed but not literal recordings of experience. In the case of Jill Price, anonymised as “AJ” in the 2006 study by Parker, Cahill and McGaugh,[1] her recollections resembled a movie running in her mind, yet she could not remember incidental details such as what her interviewers were wearing hours earlier.
I think its quite insane and I wonder what exactly is preventing everyone else from this. If I had a perfect memory, I would love to learn so many things.
i give about equal odds that either there’s some evolutionary downside to it (requires more energy, or makes you more vulnerable to brain injury somehow), or it’s just completely irrelevant to our survival and so it’s neither selected for nor against.
It would be very funny and miserable if the only thing holding humanity back from perfect memory is evolutionary indifference.
I wonder whether she really remembers every minute detail of every moment of her life, or just has the ability to imagine plausible details and an inability to know what she doesn’t remember, instead her imagination seamlessly filling in the details?
Great question. idk about Sharrock but:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia
It should be easy enough to verify using books.
People with this condition remember every detail. Phone number in a piece of paper 20 years ago.
I think its quite insane and I wonder what exactly is preventing everyone else from this. If I had a perfect memory, I would love to learn so many things.
i give about equal odds that either there’s some evolutionary downside to it (requires more energy, or makes you more vulnerable to brain injury somehow), or it’s just completely irrelevant to our survival and so it’s neither selected for nor against.
It would be very funny and miserable if the only thing holding humanity back from perfect memory is evolutionary indifference.