Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov. The school should learn to think (№ 284347)

The subject could once remember a list of a hundred, two hundred, a thousand words and play it in any order and after any time. After demonstrating this amazing ability he was asked an innocent question: I cannot remember if he was among seared in his memory the words of one, and that - the name is highly contagious disease of three letters? Stalled. Then the experimenter asked for help to the audience. And it turned out that dozens of "normal" people remember that which does not "remember" the man with the "absolute memory". The list dropped the word "typhus", and dozens of people with "conventional" memory is a word - completely involuntary - memory recorded... "Normal" memory "hid" is a word in the dark closet, "in reserve", just like all the other nine hundred and ninety-nine words. But the highest divisions of the cortex, responsible for "thinking," remained "free" for its special work - including for targeted "memories" in the ways of logical connection.