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Memories may be incompressible like genes
There are probably some rules of connectivity (motifs) in the brain, but memories—being unique to each person's experiences—may be incompressible, much like genes which are each unique because they evolved for a particular purpose; turning an experience into a stable, learned, unique wiring diagram is a genuinely hard problem where we have not reached first base despite long effort.
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Jeff LichtmanEvidence Quote
“how do you turn an experience into a wiring diagram that is also stable and is learned and it's unique to you because you learned this fact or this memory that no one else has but you? That's just a really hard question.”
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:30:16 AM
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