Memory.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/11/memory/foer-text
This articel is about the amazing gift of memory. It tells of a lady, AJ, who remembers practically everything since she was eleven and also a man, AP, who hardly remembers anything at all. The only thing he remembers is his recent thought. EP suffered a virus that ate up a lot of his brain, including the memory part. EP has antergrade and retrograde, two kinds of amnesia. He doesn't even remember that he has a memory problem.
This article describes what memory is and calls it "a stored pattern of connections between neurons in the brain." Scientists has learned a lot about amnesia through this one man's brain named HM. HM was a part of many experiments. In America, there are millions of Americans sufferring from memory problems. Basically, this whole article is about individuals who suffer from memory loss and how they get through it. It also describes how memory works.
Questions:
Is it against human rights to use a patient with memory loss as an experiment, like scientists did with HM?
Do memories make us who we are?
What makes a memory memorable?