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To: Williams
If you can't get hold of Luria's book (see the link to a description in post #21 above), definitely go ahead and read this Borges short story, which is online:

"Funes, the Memorious"

It won't take you long to read it. It gives one a sense of what it might be like to have a truly imagistic memory (although so overwhelmingly comprehensive was the memory of Funes, that it made it difficult for him to do anything at all, even calculate).

149 posted on 02/20/2005 7:49:20 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored

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153 posted on 02/20/2005 8:53:51 AM PST by Williams
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To: snarks_when_bored

Wow. Read the short story. Is this fiction, reality or fiction based on reality? Does this description indicate I may be correct in terms of the mechanism for this visual math? My general observation is that in order for humanity to be more effective in this universe, we need to develop abilities many magnitude greater than the present conscious memory and understanding most of us operate with.


154 posted on 02/20/2005 9:14:55 AM PST by Williams
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