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THE HISTORY OF MEMORY
photographic plate is that if you smash it into 100 pieces and take
any one of those 100 pieces, you can shine the two laser beams
through it and still get the same (although slightly more blurred)
picture. Thus every part of the holographic photographic plate
contains a minirecord of the overall picture.
British scientist David Bohm and others are suggesting that the
brain is similar. In other words, every one of our multimillion
brain cells may, in fact, act as a minibrain, recording in some
fantastically complex way, as yet indiscernible to our clumsy
measuring instruments, our entire experience. Fantastic as this
theory may sound, it goes a long way toward explaining the perfect
memories we have in dreams, the surprise random recall, the
memories of the perfect memorisers, the statistics from Rosen-
sweig's experiments, the results of Penfield's experiments, the
mathematical grandeur of Anokhin's results, and much of the
near-death-type experiences.
Even now we are still on the threshold of a wondrous new world
of knowledge, similar to that of the first people who began to
explore our planet immediately after having discovered that they
could make boats.

How Many Brains?
Supplementing this modern research has been the new discovery
that we have not one brain but two. Professor Roger Sperry
recently received the Nobel Prize for his breakthrough work in
this area. Sperry discovered that each one of us has a brain that is
divided into two physiological sections, each dealing with different
mental functions.
Sperry has shown that, in most of us, the left side of the brain
deals with the following areas:
logic
language
number
sequencing and linearity
analysis
Similarly, in most of us, the right side of the brain deals with the
following mental functions:
rhythm and music
imagination
daydreaming
colour
dimension

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