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Neuroengineers have found the first evidence that individual neurons in the human brain target specific memories during recall. They studied recordings in neurosurgical patients who had electrodes implanted in their brains and examined how the patients' brain signals corresponded to their behavior while performing a virtual-reality object-location memory task. The researchers identified 'memory-trace cells' whose activity was spatially tuned to the location where subjects remembered encountering specific objects. [1] A single cell remembering. A single person living. A single child laughing. The most important moments in life, lived by tiny small particles. Wandering in the thin air. Drifting in the ocean’s currents. The universe will fade away. The ocean will dry out. And the last drop of water, while dying, will carry with it all the suffering, all the laughter, all the moments of silence man has ever lived. And while turned into vapor, it will exhale proudly to the universe: I did live! Watch me die!
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