http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/socialbrains.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51
Undoubtedly we can see events related to the here and now in MRIs of the brain as shown by neuron activity. We can see concentrated thought. We can recognize a recalled memory as opposed to a process of reasoning. So where was the memory before it was recalled? A smell can conjure up memories of a concert decades ago and the songs and people associated with this event. A lifetime of sounds, smells, sights and thoughts are stored somewhere in our brain (an assumption) and kept associated with significant events yet separate from other events. By what mechanism do we sort through all these memories and find a specific one?
No argument the body chemistry is involved here. If the chemistry of our "soul" is off balance we confuse past events with current ones, lose short term memory yet remember a language web spoke only as a child, confuse imagined events with current reality ... the problems are well known. The mechanism is my question.
We remember sights, yet every second of a vision memory entails millions of analog voltages stored ... where and how?
Undoubtedly we can see events related to the here and now in MRIs of the brain as shown by neuron activity. We can see concentrated thought. We can recognize a recalled memory as opposed to a process of reasoning. So where was the memory before it was recalled? A smell can conjure up memories of a concert decades ago and the songs and people associated with this event. A lifetime of sounds, smells, sights and thoughts are stored somewhere in our brain (an assumption) and kept associated with significant events yet separate from other events. By what mechanism do we sort through all these memories and find a specific one?
No argument the body chemistry is involved here. If the chemistry of our "soul" is off balance we confuse past events with current ones, lose short term memory yet remember a language web spoke only as a child, confuse imagined events with current reality ... the problems are well known. The mechanism is my question.
We remember sights, yet every second of a vision memory entails millions of analog voltages stored ... where and how?