Is it a series of chemicals one creates overtime and stores in the brain? What exactly is being stored in your brain once you make a memory?
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Imagine our brain is a field of tall grass. And you want to get from point A to point B (say, you wanna memorize a piece of poetry). Everytime you recite the poem, you’re crossing the field from point A to point B. It’d be hard at first, since the grass is tall and you have to force your way through it.
But the more you read the poem, the more you cross that hypothetical grass field, the more those tall grass gave way. slowly forming a path than you can easily navigate. Eventually the grass will wither away and forms a straight dirt path than you can quickly walk through.
So in the most basic sense, your brains (the grass field) adapt to what you’re doing, forming new connections (our dirt parth) of neurons, making subsequent action much quicker everytime you repeat it. Though there’s bunch of different types of memory, a short-term memory, a long-term memory. Think of it as a RAM and a HDD respectively on your brain. Long term memory is also further differentiated between its use etc.
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