Recommendable! Don't you wish you had a memory like that! When will scientists equip humans with such memory capabilities be it via genetics or via human computer interface or both?
"The concept of savant syndrome dates back to 1887, when physician J. Langdon Down coined the term “idiot savant” for persons who showed low IQ but superlative artistic, musical, mathematical, or other skills. ... Nine months after Peek was born in 1951, a doctor told his family “that Kim was retarded, and they should put him in an institution and forget about him,” ... “Another doctor suggested a lobotomy [aka quackery], which fortunately they didn’t carry out.” Instead, his parents raised him at home in Utah where he raced through books, memorizing them. Despite his feats of memory and other abilities, such as performing impressive calculations in his head, Peek never learned to carry out many everyday tasks, such as dressing himself. MRIs would later reveal that Peek had abnormalities in the left hemisphere of his brain and was missing a corpus callosum, which controls communication between the two cerebral hemispheres. ..."
Savant in the Limelight, 1988-2009 | The Scientist Magazine® Kim Peek, the inspiration for the title character in Rain Man, brought public attention to savant syndrome.
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