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One of the most
remarkable aspects of an animal’s behavior is the ability to modify that
behavior by learning, and ability that reaches its highest form in human
beings. For me, learning and memory have proven to be endlessly fascinating
mental processes because they address one of the fundamental features of
human activity: our ability to acquire new ideas from experience and to
retain these ideas in memory. In fact, most of the ideas we have about the
world and our civilization we have learned so that we are who we are in good
measure because of what we have learned and what we remember.
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