Basically title, shouldn’t whatever we’re trying to remember either exist or not exist in the brain’s memory? How is it that sometimes we are able to remember something after thinking for a while that we otherwise wouldn’t have been able to?
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I think people think of memories as being files stored in drawers, but that’s not really how the brain works. Memories are stored as patterns in a neurological web. Lots of interconnected pathways and everything is connected to other associated things. When you are working to remember something, you’re strolling along those pathways taking different turns trying to find your way back to a memory by first thinking of other associated things.
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