Professor Pyotr Anokhin, the famous Pavlov’s brightest student, spent his last years investigating the potential pattern-making capabilities of the human brain. His findings were important for memory researchers. It seems that memory is recorded in separate little patterns, or electromagnetic circuits, that are formed by the brain’s interconnecting cells.
Anokhin already knew that the brain contained a million million (1,000,000,000,000) brain cells but that even this gigantic number was going to be small in comparison with the number of patterns that those brain cells could make among themselves. Working with advanced electron microscopes and computers, he came up with a staggering number.
Anokhin calculated that the number of patterns, or ‘degrees of freedom’, throughout the brain is, to use his own words, ‘so great that writing it would take a line of figures, in normal manuscript characters,
more than ten and a half million kilometres in length. With such a number of possibilities, the brain is a keyboard on which hundreds of millions of different melodies can be played’.
Your memory is the music.