While me may prefer to liken our brains to a static computer that just processes information, new research supports the idea that it actually grows. Long thought to be just the domain of the young, even the adult brain continually grows and rewrites itself. In fact, it is doing so right as you read this!
So perhaps my innocent idea as a child wasn't far off from the truth: when I was young I compared my brain (memory) with a rotary card file index (computers weren't THAT common yet and much more difficult for a youngster to visualize -- though now I realize I've dated myself). Someone would tell me to remember something and I tried to imagine that I was able to store it by writing it down and storing ait away. Now I am sure that I was just being a impertinent boy when I told people to wait so I could "write it down" -- but come to find out I wasn't that far off from the truth...
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