What it's really like to have a photographic memory

I recall (check my memory :grin:) an article wherein an archeologist surmised that prehistoric cave wall artists likely had eidetic memories, given the accuracy of their drawings. There’s a few things to unpack from that one declaration — the mind of the cave wall artist he was basing his assumption on; the minds of other cave wall artists; and the accuracy of the drawings (which, to me, look like very charming stylizations). I wonder if that archeologist can recall what he had surmised then.

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