A Man with an Impossible Memory

Video game reviewer Tim Rogers has some unpleasant memory condition where he remembers dates, numbers, etc. perfectly but also compulsively recalls old memories all day.

It's not quite like this, he said it's not a photographic memory, but it seems interesting. I read a story where he said he knew exactly how many cinnamon buns he'd ever eaten. I thought it was perhaps fiction, but there was a photo at the end implying it was real.

I think he explains it in his review of the PS1 game "Boku no natsuyasumi"

If you haven't done yourself the favor already, read the referenced story, Borges' "Funes the Memorious". It, like most of his work, is a pearl of simplicity and haunting implications.

Discussion in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18521330 (44 comments)

And 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14997702 (8 comments)

I could not imagine a life where my brain was so full of tiny details, even if some were put there deliberately. I find programming so fills my brain sometimes that I forget simple things like "did I take my pills earlier" or bill deadlines, unless I use an app to remind me. Somtimes, I make an elaborate effort to watch myself take a pill, so I can recall it later. The brain is fascinating device we still don' complete understand.

So, the researcher published the study long after the man was dead? How can we know the study wasnt faked? It happens now, and why wouldnt it happen in the past.