This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Funes, His Memory" which can be found in Collected Fictions.
It narrates encounters with and speculates about the mind and projects of a young man who, after an accident, possesses a perfect memory and capacity of perception. This renders him capable of all sorts of possible mental feats far beyond that of even exceptional human beings, but also with little capacity for abstract thought and generalization
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