Borges and Nietzche are figures who like to take the things to extremes, they like to make their points with impossibly extreme examples. Nietzche describes an extreme concept with historical person and Borges uses an extreme example for remembering as Funes the memorious. Eventhough these both are extremes in the same subject and they are about too much remembering, they do not match, even I dare to say Funes is not a historical person at all.
When conceptually considered, Funes has most of the characteristics of a historical person. He remembers everything, he doesn't let anything go, he doesn't live in the present. However he doesn't live in the memories of the past, he just record everything. For a historical person, everything is based on history but not for Funes.
The reason I don't think Funes is a historical person is more about being a person. Funes is not a person at all eventhoug he is a fictional character. He seems more like a robot and not even a today's design robot. He is like first robots, and the way both Funes and those robots function is recording, sorting information and accepting new information inputs.
Texts refered in here are "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life" by Nietzsche and "Funes the Memorious" by Borges.
Note: This is kind of homework for AE222 course at Boğaziçi University to Aylin Vartanyan.
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