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Beyond Human Limits: Seeing 100 Million Colors, Smelling Disease, Remembering Every Face You’ve Ever Seen
In the realm of everyday existence, there exist certain individuals endowed with extraordinary faculties, akin to those of mythical superheroes—some possess the uncanny ability to etch faces into their memory, others can discern a staggering array of 100 million hues, while a select few can even discern their partners solely by scent. Among them is the remarkable case of a sufferer of Parkinson’s disease. The Korean-American prodigy of facial recognition, Seo Yanni, has exhibited her remarkable prowess since childhood. In the quotidian sphere, her photographic memory for faces can prove somewhat disconcerting. Consider a scenario where you encounter Ms. Yanni for the first time, only to find she can effortlessly…