FYI, I heard that Oliver Sacks fabricated/embellished a lot of the anecdotal accounts in his books. This was a fairly public controversy, so evidence for it can be found on Google.
Thanks, I didn’t know about this controversy, I will look at it. However while Sacks’s stories may be exagerated, the oddity of memory access is something that most of us can experience ourselves. For instance, many memories of our childhood seem lost. Our conscious mind has no more access to them. But in some special circumstances they can be reactivated, usually in a blurry way but sometimes in a very vivid form. Like we lost the path in our index but the data was still on the hard drive.
FYI, I heard that Oliver Sacks fabricated/embellished a lot of the anecdotal accounts in his books. This was a fairly public controversy, so evidence for it can be found on Google.
Thanks, I didn’t know about this controversy, I will look at it. However while Sacks’s stories may be exagerated, the oddity of memory access is something that most of us can experience ourselves. For instance, many memories of our childhood seem lost. Our conscious mind has no more access to them. But in some special circumstances they can be reactivated, usually in a blurry way but sometimes in a very vivid form. Like we lost the path in our index but the data was still on the hard drive.