Memory – Unbounded Life

Face Value

Posted on December 28, 2024December 29, 2024 by Chris Barclay

In Dr. Oliver Sack’s book, The Mind’s Eye, the famous neurologist explores clinical cases of individuals afflicted with fascinating perceptual aberrations, including the inability to recognize faces. Sacks, who himself suffered from this disorder all of his life, recounts a case of apologizing to a bearded man he had bumped into when in fact it […]

The forgetting game

Posted on July 29, 2024August 30, 2024 by Chris Barclay

On daily walks, I often put on a Lex Fridman podcast or Sam Harris’s Making Sense. Both of these are long-form interviews, taking deep dives into the nature of human experience. But my guilty pleasure is a YouTube channel called Coming Home. These are stories from a wide range of people who recount their near-death […]