As a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1987, Carson famously separated infant twins conjoined at the head. It came in an anecdote meant to motivate the federal employees, a bit Carson developed on the public speaking circuit. Ben & Candy Carson tweeted: ...the brain can process two million bits of information per second. And they would be able to recite back to you, verbatim, a book they read 60 years ago. Exactly where the brain holds memories is a question with century-old roots, and is likely a function of the memory's age.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 07, 2017 19:41 UTC