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Comment by eggie

> neurons appear to serve as both CPU and memory storage

I'm not sure this is really certain. But that uncertainty is more because it's hard to prove that there isn't another means of recording memory than something we know.

There has been speculation that there might be some genetic or biopolymer based system in the hippocampus, but I'm not familiar with anything more than speculation on that topic.

parent eggie 7 years ago

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