“the hippocampus does much more than encode individual episodes; rather, it adap

—“the hippocampus does much more than encode individual episodes; rather, it adaptively transforms

initially-encoded episodic memories into organized conceptual knowledge that drives novel behavior.”—

I wonder if the difference in the conservative mind is just that: a combination of amygdalic and hippocampal production of attention to longer term generalizations, versus the more experiential sorter term.