What happens when our ability to process information in relation to critical thinking is impaired and we are reduced to mere facts of information accessed? Jorge Luis Borges’ fictional story “Funes the Memorious” addresses this question through providing a case, as an example, of how the brain may approach information in relation to mankind’s ability to think versus recall. In the story, Funes was a young man who tragically passed away but had an incredible memory. The narrator felt obligated to write a memorial towards him because of his strength towards his ability to perfectly recall all forms of details. This mental power occurred after he fell off his horse in an accident and changed his memory in a way that deemed him differently by
