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In order to control behaviour, the biological brains must be able to form internal models of the sensory environment and its history. Such a “miniature environment” to which all decisions are related is provided by memory. The recollections from memory occur as operands in thinking and problem-solving operations. In an exact scientific approach to these phenomena, a somewhat confusing aspect is that thinking and reminiscence are mental operations associated with the cognitive ability of living organisms. The fact that biological memory closely interacts with mental processes is an old notion:
“Thus memory belongs to the faculty of the soul to which imagination belongs; all objects which are imaginable are essentially objects of memory; all those that necessarily involve images are objects of memory incidentally.” (Aristotle, 384–322 B.C.)
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Kohonen, T. (1988). Various Aspects of Memory. In: Self-Organization and Associative Memory. Springer Series in Information Sciences, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-00784-6_1
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