Talk:Enhanced Memory/@comment-184.38.44.80-20120814201425/@comment-5553107-20120905203152

Good point. It does and doesn't. Hyperthemesia is a medical condition where they remember their autobiographical life in GREAT detail (due to past traumatic experiences or other phenomenon), but this doesn't mean they can read a novel or thesis or listen to a lecture and remember every word. Then there is the mnemonist who can memorize obscenely long list of numbers, names, and symbols seemingly with ease by setting up and recognizing a subtle pattern. These are the people you want to play 21 or poker with. There is also a few people with Eidetic Memory who are capable of memorizing a picture when removed from their view as if the image was still there. These people seem to have a camera in their brain and with a click can repaint it. What I say all this to say is that there is more than one condition of prodigious memory and while hyperthemesia would fit into one collumn, it would not be the complete antithesis of amnesia.