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Was gunna type it out but found someone who said it better than I could have.
Deja vu appears to be caused by unusual and sometimes quite active random firings of neurons in the temporal or frontal lobe portion of the brain. The frontal lobe acts as a short term storage area and acts in conjunction with the temporal lobe to solve logic problems, make decisions etc. Perhaps the misfirings of neurons act to place current sensory input in the wrong "time slot." Thus, the feeling of "deja vu." Essentially, using Vogon's description, maybe the data's time-stamp get's corrupted and instead of being placed in "is happening now" short-term cache, it get's slotted to "it's happened in the past" short-term cache. The short-term cache would be an area reserved for bringing thoughts to "working" status so they can be reasoned over actively using multiple areas of the brain.
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