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Natural memory is generally involuntary; confirmation of this statement is the well-known impossibility of voluntary forgetting (memorization and forgetting are two sides of the same memory mechanism).

As for the recognition of partially visible objects, this reflects not the specific functionality of neurons (which are represented by several dozen varieties that arose from the need to have different functionality), but the specificity of the natural algorithm for forming a representation of a visible scene in the form of a set of logical objects. These are very distant logical/structural levels of the nervous control system.

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Thank you for your comment, but I am not sure I completely understand whether it is an objection to what I said or not. I am saying that recognition of partially visible objects relies on the ability of the brain to reconstruct what is not there by triggering an internal response that is not triggered directly by the external environment. So, yes, I agree that we form a representation of the visible scene that is reconstructed internally filling the gaps.

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