> What are you saying? I don't get it.

What I said was:

  Amnesia is not the inability to "learn from one situation 
  to the next." It is instead a condition affecting the 
  ability of memory recall.

Someone having "both temporal lobes removed" is separate and apart from amnesia AFAIK.

Now as to the case you quoted - I was unaware of it until you kindly shared it. IMHO, this supports the plausibility of having consciousness while being unable to learn anything new (as you summarized). The implications of this are fascinating to me in a detached objective sense.