Researchers have just discovered that a single cell can hold on to memories, and that it doesn’t necessarily have to be a network of neurons that stores memory.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7846531.stm
I wonder if memories are backed up on to multiple cells. If so, I had a really great song idea this morning in the shower, and I even told it to myself a few times so that I wouldn’t forget when I got out. Unfortunately, I forgot and I’m still trying to remember it. It would be really nice to know where that one brain cell with that memory went off to.