There's a split from neuroscience I can't stop thinking about as the real reason AI agents fail inside companies. Treat it as an analogy, not a literal claim, but it keeps holding. Your brain runs two memory systems (Complementary Learning Systems theory, McClelland et al. 1995). The neocortex learns slowly and holds general, world knowledge. The hippocampus learns fast: it captures specific episodes as they happen, then consolidates the ones that recur into durable, reusable procedure. A pr...