thousand miles of blood vessels. Really. I kid you not. There’s also billions of neurons passing information around. Can you feel the humming?” He lowered his voice to nearly a whisper. “So many worlds hidden inside of other worlds.” Now he raised his voice again. “Did you know that your brain is generating actual watts of energy right now? There’s enough electricity to light up a lightbulb if we knew how to hook it up. But we are only now beginning to get a peek at how the thing actually works. And memory is just one of the many many new frontiers. However, one of the most important ones. “If you think of the Short Term Memory as being like an entrance hallway, then you can think of Long Term Memory as being the vast mansion that the hallway leads into. In order to get a piece of information past the front hallway into the mansion requires some work, some activity. It appears that a retrievable long term memory usually gets stored not just in one place in your brain, but in many different connecting places in your brain. And the more places it gets stored—” He paused and touched his eyelids. “In the Video room for instance.” He touched his ears. “Or in the Audio room, perhaps.” He touched his nose. “In the Fragrance closet, maybe or in the Happiness Cabinet.” He smiled a big smile. “Or up in the Scary attic?” He made a face of terror. “The more places it gets stored, the more likely you are to be able to pull it out of storage.” OR? From Chapter Two
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