The latest research in neuroscience points to the source of our long term memory being a virus. As a result of the study, researchers now believe that a chance encounter occurring hundreds of millions of years ago, led to the virus's influence in our memory function today. My theory on how this happened? ALIENS! They upgraded our hard drives to include long term memories. That theory may be false due to the Fermi Paradox. That theory says that there are trillions of habitable planets in the universe for supporting life. Astronomers estimate that there are 1 million planets in the Milky Way that fit into the Goldilocks zone. Not too hot, not too cold, therefore they could also support life. With all these potential planets shouldn’t the universe be filled with spaceships and aliens? 

Article that started this episode: https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/our-memory-comes-from-an-ancient-virus-neuroscientists-say?fbclid=IwAR0iX_Iq4nMASVtDUTZXP4glrzEMbnu8Ts00juMRN3y2NV6DtNNp0TbffzM

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