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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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How do blackouts work? Was the memory never recorded, never saved or deleted while sleeping?
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There are three stages to memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval. During a blackout from drinking, the prefrontal cortex is inhibited, which is responsible for a large portion of encoding events into short-term memory. Information must be encoded into short-term memory before it is stored into long-term memory. Therefore, because this information can’t be properly encoded and stored into short-term memory, the memory is unable to be processed into long-term memory via the hippocampus. 

Think of a livestream that’s not being saved.

So basically the information is never recorded.