hyporational comments on Human Memory: Problem Set - Less Wrong

13 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 31 October 2013 04:08AM

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Comment author: hyporational 01 November 2013 03:43:24AM 0 points [-]

I think your problem was not only that your memory was damaged, but that you had more stuff to remember, probably stuff that you used to take for granted.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 01 November 2013 04:21:41AM 0 points [-]

Oh, there were several problems, and they reinforced each other. That was one of them, yes. Another was that executive function and attention were damaged, which of course made noticing things in the first place challenging and sometimes painful.