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Excerpt from The Diseases of Memory
The number of facts and inductions that go to confirm this thesis is so great as to make it almost a certitude; and it would re quire weighty reasons indeed to refute it. In truth there is no such thing as memory but only memories; there is no one seat of mem ory, but special seats for each memory in particular. Memory is not, as the vague phrase of common speech has it, in the it is fixed in its birth-place, in a part of the nervous system.
This premised, we begin to see our way more clearly through the problem of the physiological conditions of memory. These conditions we conceive to be as follows.
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