Fucking a bubba.

It must be the woman, damn sure ain't me....

Zookeeper wrote:

A woman who remembers every single thing that ever happened to her?  That's every wife!

Mine used to have that problem.  I got tired of telling her that it's not fair to bring up everything I've ever done when she's mad at me.  I spent about six months saving up, and thinking about, everything she did that annoyed me. Then hit her with all of it during the next big argument.  It wasn't easy, but it worked.

Pale, there is a difference between her ability and being able to memorize. The function of memory is complex and we have limited understanding of it. One of the basic questions one faces when studying the brain's creation of memory is why do we not remember more and why do we remember what we commonly do. There is supposition that there is a mechanism of forgetting. Which allows for our perception not to become overloaded.

If this mechanism were shorted in her then the overdeveloped areas in her brain may be related to the growth of synaptic connections over time as her brain devoted more resources to processing the added load of reliving memory as if it were constantly in the present. It would have been a great advantage to have been able to map her brain when she was younger.

I have known idiot savants who had her ability. As a high schooler at my job there was an older man who was astonishing in this regard. He went through the day mumbling a running dialogue to himself. When he was a child they thought he was a functional retard and i suppose he would later have been called autistic. You could ask him any question about what was happening on any date. He could describe in detail the weather on your first day of school. The bosses used him as a databank of what had been done for clients 15 years before. Of course he could only remember the jobsites he had been driven to and seen.

Last edited by Johnny_Rotten (2008-05-10 20:27:25)

pALEPHx wrote:

It's kinda like a superpower, I think. Makes me want to know why she didn't get an A on every test she ever took, got admitted to the finest of colleges, graduated magna and proceeded to use her talent to become a captain of industry or some other overpaid corporate flunkie. Instead, such people seem to lead very average lives. Wotta waste.

In addition to JohnnyRotten's comment, it's good to remember that remembering details of events, dates, etc. does not ensure that one can generalize from them.  For example, she would probably be able to answer "who, what, where" questions about political contests she'd read or heard about in as much detail as an historian, but be unable to synthesize those details into explanations of individual or group motivation/strategy.