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THE REAL SCIENCE BEHIND:

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

A Novel

Viruses may actually be responsible for the ability to form memories

8/15/2019

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What do we know for sure, and what don’t we? If memory makes us who we are, and we don’t hold our memories—what does that make us?
~An excerpt from Sleep of Reason

THE REAL SCIENCE:
Have you wondered why you remember some things and forget others? Whether you are the sum of the memories you have created? Whether our collective memory as a society defines our humanity?

Scientists have just discovered that a protein in your brain behaves like a virus--infecting your cells with memories.

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/12/a-protein-in-your-brain-behaves-like-a-virus-infecting-your-cells-with-memories_partner/

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