Pepsi, you're completely out of your element here and don't know what you're talking about. Your understanding of memory and cognitive function is limited at best, and that is being polite. You don't understand the type of memories we have, their functions, whether they have strong or weak neural connections, and the reasons for those connections. Pulling the hyperthymesia study out of your ass is indication of that, not understanding that this is an amplification fo autobiographical and semantic memory function, this affects a tiny tiny population of people, and easily identified through cognitive testing. You're conflating the extreme with the norm. What you consider "scientific or helpful" is meaningless, because you don't know what you're talking about.
Based on your hot take, if a patient goes to the doctor and all tests comeback negative for disease, the doctor should still treat the patient as if they are sick and have a terminal illness. The doctor should eschew all evidence that the individual is healthy, and all their systems are functioning fine, and should instead believe - for no reason - that the patient is sick and needs treatment for an unidentified disease. That is what you are saying here. In your twisted world, if a psychologist completes neurologic, neurophysico, and cognitive function testing, and finds no indicators of impairment - the patient is healthy and functioning as expected - the psychologist should still treat this individual as if they are impaired and consider their memories faulty until proven otherwise through production of material evidence. That's not shocking, that's ####ed up. If a patient shows no signs of cognitive impairment we must accept that they are normal, healthy, and their memory is functioning as expected, just as an attending physician would consider their patient healthy when tests came back negative. Otherwise we must believe that every person's memories are faulty and every person is unintentionally a liar. Well, except those who have a clearly defined cognitive impairment like hyperthymesia. They're all good.
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