The Blue Print of the Brain

Scotts: There are many metaphors fror memory, and i start the book by almost spoofing the bad metaphors. But in fact, we're blessed with more than a metaphor, with an analogy, and that's our computer, or personal computers. So without a hyppocampus, you simply can't move new information to your hard drive. And it's very similar to the components of the engineering of computers and how they store, save and rechieve information.