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"Cherry Stems."

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I'm not too happy that
fruit flies have brains

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since I swat them whenever I
see them or think I see them.

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I know about their
brains because I

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met a scientist who
tinkers with their learning

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circuitry, "the actual
mechanics of how

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a memory trace is laid down
in a nerve cell or neuron."

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All this proxy-- dissecting
the behavior of an insect--

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to figure out how the
brain works for something

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like typing, at which my mother
was a pro, and me, fairly

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miserable because of some
disorder which it seems

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my daughter has
inherited since she also

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exhibits left-right confusion.

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However, she can
twist a cherry stem

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into a bow with her tongue;
an ability, no doubt,

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from an ancestral brain, but
which also reveals something

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about a summer in Florence.

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[LAUGHTER]

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In other words, too much
information regarding memory

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trace.

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