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Podcast: The Coffee Buzz
Episode: The Origins of Memory and the Fermi Paradox
Description: The latest research in neuroscience points to the source of our long term memory being a virus. As a result of the study, researchers now believe that a chance encounter occurring hundreds of millions of years ago, led to the virus's influence in our memory function today. My theory on how this happened? ALIENS! They upgraded our hard drives to include long term memories. That theory may be false due to the Fermi Paradox. That theory says that there are trillions of habitable planets in the universe for supporting life. Astronomers estimate that there are 1 million planets in the Milky...