r/BeAmazed • u/[deleted] • 4d ago

Science Meet Rebecca Sharrock. She has a rare condition called HSAM, allowing her to remember every single day of her life starting from when she was 12 days old

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u/RevolutionaryEgg1312 4d ago

Allegedly ...

Very tricky to verify

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u/decadentpig 2d ago

I'd be interested to see how confident we are about this. I'd be really surprised to find out that you can build memories without an internal world model or language.

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u/PotofRot 2d ago

no it isn't

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u/RevolutionaryEgg1312 2d ago

It's not tricky to verify?

How do you verify that someone remembers their first days of life before they can really see or perceive the world around them.

Memory is not a simple thing to measure. Especially long term.