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I'm skeptical about the existence of that kind of photographic memory.


It's rare but it does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek


You'd have to find an MP with that same ability.


While it is unlikely that a natural eidetic currently serves in parliament, memory is something that can be trained and improved.

So you take a willing MP, teach them about mnemonics, memory palaces, chunking, and list-ordering narratives, and you could likely smuggle out a few dozen pages every week.


I've had two students in six years who could perfectly reproduce the information on a textbook page after one look at it, even if they had no understanding of the material.




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