As someone who did his dissertation on episodic memory development, I see the wry humor, but I think your comment is a non sequitur. It is not that we have figu

As someone who did his dissertation on episodic memory development, I see the wry humor, but I think your comment is a non sequitur. It is not that we have figured it all out, but rather can we gleam knowledge about cognition (e.g. episodic memory) and the brain from neuroscience and behavioral techniques. I think the answer is clearly yes. In terms of memory, we understand, for example, that the hippocampus is critical to some forms of memory, most critically memory that requires binding of arbitrary information/percepts representations into a more cohesive event representation, that the hippocmapus may achieve this through computational properties potentially afforded to it in microcircuits in subfields of the hippcampus (e.g. pattern completion from heavy recurrnecy in CA3) and pattern separation of information in the dentate gyrus, etc. and so on.