According to Tom Purdue (who is widely known to be obsessed with Memory) our earliest experiences are locked deep within our hard drives (he is also a technology geek), and are mapped closely to their contemporary emotions. So encountering a close childhood friend activates both memory and emotion. Underground strikes and other traumatic events can prove disruptive to memory and emotion and whatever is was that Tom was thinking about. As he stands watching the swollen breakers crashing down on the seashore, Tom suddenly remembers the strange conversation he was having with Prigentia who explained to him the crucial involvement of the Amygdala and the Hippocampus in memory functions. Turns out that despite her outrageous behaviour Prigentia is quite bright.
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