Sublime

As author Lynne McTaggart reports: “Their motor skills might be impaired, and they might stagger disjointedly along, but the rats always remembered the routine”39 [emphasis in original]. Dr. Lashley was unable to show where in the brain memories were stored because he destroyed everything and yet the rats could still remember the routine. How could

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that we each have four distinctive groups of cells, divided between our two brain hemispheres, that generate four consistent and predictable personalities.

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V1 cells seem to have no knowledge at all about the faces, cars, books, or other meaningful objects you see all the time; all they “know” about is a tiny, pinhole-size portion of the visual world.

of brain function, including memory, will be complete until it can fully incorporate and explain this jarring contradiction of extraordinary ability and sometimes permeating disability in the same person. Until we can fully explain the savant, we cannot fully explain ourselves nor comprehend our full capacities.”

An unconscious image enters sensory areas but creates only a modest wave of activity in the prefrontal cortex. Attention, concentration, processing depth, and conscious awareness transform this small wave into a neuronal tsunami that invades the prefrontal cortex and maximizes subsequent memorization.8