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Wed 3 Feb, 2010 12:05 pm
I just heard someone making references to Wilder Penfield, a heavy weighter in neurology, and Sir John Eccles, who won a nobel prize for his work with neural transmitters, claim that memories are not stored in the brain.
Is this the leading opinion among those who research the mind/brain relationship?
If so, what are the implications?
I tend to view mind and brain as the same thing. This thing we study is called brain when we examine it from the outside and mind when we examine it from the inside.
But anyway, where are the memories?
I think the memory resides in the feet..
When I walk naked feet on the beach, it always brings sweet memories.
But when I hit a rock with my toes, I forget everything..
If it's a memory to do a chore, then my wife stores my memory.
Good memory is remembering what to forget.
I do so many things in one day, that I can't possible remember everything. But I get pissed off at myself when I make a conscious commitment to remember something then can't recall it later. Overload, I call it.
So, toes and wives store some memories. Got it.
But since I don't have a wife I've been talking to my feet all day, and I'm none the wiser..
@Cyracuz,
Cyracuz wrote:
I just heard someone making references to Wilder Penfield, a heavy weighter in neurology, and Sir John Eccles, who won a nobel prize for his work with neural transmitters, claim that memories are not stored in the brain.
Is this the leading opinion among those who research the mind/brain relationship?
If so, what are the implications?
I tend to view mind and brain as the same thing. This thing we study is called brain when we examine it from the outside and mind when we examine it from the inside.
But anyway, where are the memories?
Don't let this guy screw you up. The memories are in the brain.
@Cyracuz,
Cyracuz wrote:
Are you sure?
How do you know?
Have you seen them?
The short term memories are in the form of electrical resistances of brain connections, and the long term memories are some form of chemically encoded information in the brain. How would memories in your arm work? People have lost arms without losing memories.
@Brandon9000,
But they couldn't make new memories with that arm
@Cyracuz,
It's called RNA the memory gene
@djjd62,
Ah, Bill and Elvis. Thanks for that video
And I have decided that I
think memory is in consciousness, not in the brain.
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