# Does the brain memorize or not - proof?

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**Created:** [August 31, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/does-the-brain-memorize-or-not-proof/4455 "2018-08-31T21:26:08Z")\
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Perhaps, but that would end up:  
A) being distributed over a network of connections. There is much to suggest that memories are redistributed over the interconnected maps during dream cycles.  
B) SDRs are capable of holding an astonishingly large number of discrete values, with unions of common features.

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