It's just a memory, that's all.

Long-term memory is that part of our "memory storage system that has unlimited capacity to retain information over an extended time".

Not much is known about the physiology of long-term memory, although scientists speculate that the hippocampus is involved in the creation of long-term memory. It is unclear where long-term memories are stored, although there is some evidence that a single memory may be broken down into various elements and stored in many places at once.

As Irving Kupferman explains, "long-term memories are stored in multiple regions throughout the nervous system. (In other words, they are not localized but stored through circuitry)".

Perhaps the most fascinating questions about memory have to do with the connection between human consciousness and memory.

Psychologist Michael Dawson notes that what makes memories feel so real is that "real-time experience is just as indirect" as remembered experience. In other words, the neurobiological process of recollecting an experience is in some ways identical to the process of experiencing it in the first place!

Now how do I get rid of the blardy hippocampus???

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