After Karim Nader Upended the Science of Memory, He Started to Lose His Own - The Walrus
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KARIM NADER SIPPED from a Coke can as he strode across the front of the lecture hall in a long coat, one ear pierced, tossing out questions and calling on students at random to answer them. “What do you think it would be like if you couldn’t forget anything—if you remembered every single detail of your life?” It was around 2007: I was in my second or third year of undergrad at McGill University, and Nader was teaching a class on his work in memory research.
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