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Miracles of Memory

hen you want to express an idea, your mind
Winstantly sets in motion a complex intellectual
machine. It recalls the desired idea, extracts it from the
tangled maze of facts and events in your memory, selects
the appropriate words, orders them according to the
rules of grammar, then activates your tongue to speak
or your fingers to write. In this way, numerous actions
and interactions take place within the mind at an
incredibly high speed. Almost all the senses contribute
to this process.

The fact is that your mind is filled with countless ideas,
but if you have to express even one of them in English,
you must first select the appropriate words from the
jungle of the quarter million words which make up the
language, after which you must put things in the correct
order with unbelievable speed, and only then are you
are able to utter or write down a meaningful linguistic
sequence. This process is unimaginably complex, with
numerous known and unknown processes going on
in your mind at lightning speed. It is the interaction
of these factors which results in meaningful speech or
writing.
How does this all this take place? Recent research
shows that there is an incredibly complex system in our

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