How Unique You Are! - Memory and More!

When you glance in a mirror, you may think of how you looked when you were younger, even comparing that with what your appearance could be in the years to come or how you would look applying cosmetics.  These thoughts can arise almost unconsciously, yet something very special is occurring, something that no animal can experience. 

Unlike animals, who mainly live and act on present needs, humans can contemplate the past and plan for the future.  A key to your doing that is the brains' almost timeless memory capacity. True, animals have a degree of memory, and thus they can find their way back home or recall where food may be. Human memory is far greater. One scientist estimated that our brain can hold information that "would fill some twenty million volumes, as many as in the world's largest libraries."  Some neuroscientists estimate that during an average life span, a person uses only 1/100 of 1 percent  (.001) of his potential brain capacity. You might well ask, 'Why do we have a brain with so much capacity that we hardly test a fraction of it in a normal lifetime?' 

Nor is our brain just some vast storage place for information, like the supercomputer. Biology professors Robert Ornstein and Richard F. Thompson wrote;  "The ability of the human mind to learn-to store and to recall information-is the most remarkable phenomenon in the biological universe.  Everything that makes us human-language, thought, knowledge, culture-is the result of this extraordinary capability." 

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From the book Is There a Creator That Cares About You?