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The Benefits of Not Having a Photographic Memory
The writer hore louis borces the argentine speculated that having a photographic memory would create a whole host of problems. And what's interesting in his speculation, he wasn't a narrow scientist, but his speculation is now being confirmed by narrow science. We all, some sometimes secretly hope to have the super power of photographic memory. I think many of us fantasize about that power. But then he shows that, like any super power, there's a hidden to that. The curse is actually something similar that some people with autism experience, and that's the inability to generalize, to abstract. He says, to think is to forget.