"How thoughts are stored" is the entire premise of Sebastian Seung's (http://bcs.mit.edu/people/seung.html http://bcs.mit.edu/people/seung.html) TED talk it was

"How thoughts are stored" is the entire premise of Sebastian Seung's (http://bcs.mit.edu/people/seung.html http://bcs.mit.edu/people/seung.html) TED talk it was referencing -- "I Am My Connectome". The importance of perspective shifts isn't a new idea -- Alan Kay stresses the same thing (http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_kay_shares_a_powerful_idea_about_ideas.html http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_kay_shares_a_powerful_idea_abo...).