OT: Supermemory [was Re: Is Hermione Supposed....]

bufo_viridis at interia.pl bufo_viridis at interia.pl
Wed Mar 31 19:21:55 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 94695

> Bill: 
> Mark Twain's autobiographical book 'Life on the Mississippi' 
> contains an account of a river-pilot who had a perfect memory.
> 
> I don't know how accurate this is, but if somebody did in fact have 
> a near-perfect memory, it sounds plausible to me.
> 
The most famous case of a man who remembered literally everything is described in *The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memory*
by Aleksandr R. Luria.
Short info can be found here:
http://www.dreamhawk.com/Memory.HTM

Happy reading.
Viridis
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