[AdSimp]

I would like to hear an explanation of how a single fact manifests itself in the brain. When I think of the number 42, what form does that take in the neurons and dendrons and what else?

On a computer chip, I can conceptually point to this switch being on, the next one off, and so on.

[Red Badger]

On a computer chip, I can conceptually point to this switch being on, the next one off, and so on.

You can in a brain as well, except that the neurons are like individual spreadsheets with each cell of the spreadsheet cross connected to every other cell for an almost infinite set of connections. When you said '42' I immediately thought of Elvis Pressley, because he died at '42', so somewhere in my brain the 'concept of '42' is linked to Elvis Pressley....................

[Red Badger]

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/31277/3-d-spreadsheet

[seowulf]

Well, 42 is the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything” according to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.