Ep. #38 - What If You Couldn't Remember? [The Invisible Gorilla, Kent Cochrane, BK Doe]
The What If? Podcast
Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud
4.6 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2017
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
We journey back into the mind this week, and back into human memory. Last week's episode was all about remembering, but this week we flip the question on its head, and tell stories about people who forget. What is amnesia, and what happens to the people who get it? We talk about how unreliable our memories really are, myths about memory, and more. Spencer tells the story of "Burger King Doe," and Ryan tells the story of world-famous memory loss patient, Kent Cochrane.
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