engram

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Oh! Some quick Scientology auditing has uncovered an earlier engram, and I remember I had Motley Crue's "Girls Girls Girls" on cassette when I was about 6 years old, because, again, I thought the cover was cool.

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  1. noun A physical alteration thought to occur in living neural tissue in response to stimuli, posited as an explanation for memory.

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  • Oh! Some quick Scientology auditing has uncovered an earlier engram, and I remember I had Motley Crue's "Girls Girls Girls" on cassette when I was about 6 years old, because, again, I thought the cover was cool. —  MetaFilter
  • They tell you that Jesus is an engram, an implanted notion. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • They are explained without it by Semon's "engram," or by any theory which regards the results of experience as embodied in modifications of the brain and nerves. —  The Analysis of Mind
  • Burress, engram, questionable wayne, and johnson, pick three? —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • “Want to supervise a recreational program for used bios that've been engram-scrubbed? —  Analog SFF, November 2006
 

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  1. German Engramm : en-2 + Greek -gramma, -gram.
 

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