Episode: 4636
Title: 7 seconds memory
Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4636/hpr4636.mp3
Transcribed: 2026-07-31 16:15:39 (official HPR transcript)

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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4636, for 2026-05-11
Today's show is entitled, "7 seconds memory"
The host is Antoine and the duration is 00:05:31
The flag is Explicit, and the license is CC-BY-SA
The summary is "[no subtitle]"
There are two things of the human experience that influence greatly our feelings and our
behaviors, the memory and the pain.
Let's talk about the first.
Live wearing was a conductor, a musician that lost a part of his brain, a virus named
Helper Simplex, that causes fever.
In his case, trespassed the barrier between blood and brain and caused an inflammation that
damaged permanently the hippotallence responsible for memory.
Immediately after being cured of the infection by antiviral medicine, he was a man with no
memory.
He couldn't recognize his children, who later kind of abandoned him, sees it to visit
him because that condition was just said for them.
In the first moments, he was too angry.
I can't think was a constant prisoner of the consciousness, is the title of the TV documentary
that was produced on him soon after the event.
His wife, the second, not the mother of his two sons and one daughter, was his fullest
item of a memory if he could picture memory as drawings in a furniture, which of course
is an inesect to say the meaning.
He could still know, ever that she, Deborah, was his wife and apart from his sons, her wife's
name was the only one he knew.
His anguiness was her place years later by calm, and gentle, and just full personality.
Intelligence, like a part from the laws of memory, he kept it two thirds of his personality.
He definitely still was Clive, that observation comes from one of his sons, in that the
commentary made 20 years after the first, called Second Seconds Memory.
That is why Deborah, after divorcing him, and couldn't have him find another love, she
was searching for Clive in other experiences, which she couldn't find.
Later, renewed the voice, the wedding voice, with her husband.
Even though they couldn't live together, because of his need of constant separation.
The doctors, as the second documentary that is the line for this program, says, could not
explain how he became more peaceful.
I have a guess.
Clive lost memory of events.
He could not live in his mind, recall any happenings.
He knew her wife as his wife, but no memory of the wedding.
Remember it having worked for BBC, but not one thing, fact that he done.
Maybe he could have retained a little bit of what we could call.
And like any technical precision here, descriptive memory.
He could retain the old relations of a name, with a characteristic, a face, with the level
of proximity he had with that.
As long as they were verbalized in his understanding, because he could not evoke and
effect, he lost the other thing, other term without precision, narrative memory.
But words still made sense to him.
So in a living the same day, every day, with no time, no continuity.
Maybe some perception, could have engraved in his mind, even with the damage memory,
and a sense in the direction of going on without despair.
This is only I guess.
Thank you.
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