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Chapter 3 explores the origin of ideas, and Chapters 1 and 2 explore their storage and retrieval. In between, however, there is another step: communication. If an idea in your brain did not originate there, it sprang from the creative act of another person, was imparted to you via communication, and only then was stored in your brain via memory.