The Entire History of You and J.L.Borges

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Jorge Luis Borges is a famous writer from Argentina. His stories are what you might find under fantasy/sci fi and include dreams, consciousness, philosophy, and many other themes. His story Funes, the Memorious (English translation) and The Entire History of You have the common theme of what I call "total" memory, which means the ability to remember everything ever seen or heard with absolute precision, without forgetting anything. This may sound like what is commonly called "photographic memory" (eidetic memory), but that ability involves short term memory, and the characters in the above works never forget.
In both works, the question arises: Is this a blessing or a curse (or both)?
First, there are differences. In the Borges story, there is only one character with this ability, while in The Entire History almost everyone seems to have it. This leads to one of the curses of the ability. Others will tend to find out things that you don't want them to know. There are many examples of this in History, but the most important is Liam's jealousy, which may not have been a problem without his abilities to view all her memories, and also his his obsessions based on his absolutely perfect recall of how she acted at a dinner party. Liam is required to submit his memories to police and as a part of job applications.
Also, in History there is the device implanted in each person (the "grain?"). In Funes the ability arose from an injury and the character has no way of stopping it. The character Hallam has apparently removed her device and bears a nasty scar where it was removed. But also one can use the device's hand held controller to selectively delete selected memories. As you might expect, the "grain" device has other "features:" You can use it like a credit card, but of course that implies the curse of so many modern "conveniences:" They can use that against you.
What is the nature of this extraordinary memory? Borges noted that Funes is "almost incapable of general, platonic ideas." He could recall the exact configuration of the branches, leaves, etc. of each tree he had ever seen, but was unable, so to speak, to see the forest, because he remembered so much detail about each tree. Borges: To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract. In the overly replete world of Funes there were nothing but details, almost contiguous details.
John Houseman as Charles Kingsfield: "A 'photographic memory' is absolutely useless to you without the ability to analyze that vast mass of facts between your ears!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjJ0aV0L1nI
Similarly, in History Coleen says "Half the organic memories you have are junk!" Funes: "My memory is like a rubbish heap."
In both works the characters try to escape from the memories. In History Liam uses alcohol. Borges: It was very difficult for him to sleep. To sleep is to be abstracted from the world; Funes, on his back in his cot, in the shadows, imagined every crevice and every molding of the various houses which surrounded him.... Toward the east, in a section which was not yet cut into blocks of homes, there were some new unknown houses. Funes imagined them black, compact, made of a single obscurity; he would turn his face in this direction in order to sleep.
Again and again in History we encounter the idea of too many useless details. Jonas notes that some people obsess over the thickness of the paper in wedding invitations.
Similar characters in movies: Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. His abilities arose from an injury to his brother (Tom Cruise). Hoffman's character was based on a real person, Richard Peek. Mozart had an extraordinary memory specific to music. I believe this episode could be expanded or Dark Mirror could create new episodes with new characters, to explore such related abilities.