Here is another view of brain activity, not quite under our wakeful control:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sparks-in-your-sleep&WT.mc_id=SA_C...

SciAm at it again. Here the blog discusses transposons changing DNA in reproducing neurons. Is it helping memory as proposed, causing disease, or affecting free will?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ductile-helix-jumping&WT.mc_id=SA_...