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Originally Posted by adman
uh-oh Carl - you haven't been reading too much Deepak Chopra have you...?   |
Nope, never read any of his books at all. I'm actually very serious about this. No one has ever been able to point to any part of the brain and say..."there, that's where your memory and consciousness resides". The reason being is that they've been looking at this from completely the wrong direction. Biologist still don't like to admit and very few actually understand that at the very heart of all the biochemical and other processes that occur within the body is a fundamental quantum mechanical base. They understand hardly anything about the function of the microtubules in the neurons and glia within the brain itself, let alone their function anywhere else. They're more than small enough for quantum mechanical processes to be significant in their function.
You can make jokes and laugh all you like about it, but that doesn't make it any less serious when it comes to how the brain works. They basically know sweet nothing about it in reality. What they do know is nothing more than knowing how a computer is put together on a basic level and how some of the programming works.
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Originally Posted by adman
Memory is a very strange thing indeed. It seems to be very distributed - there is no one part of the brain that is solely responsible. You can have major disturbances to the physical structure of the brain, and still retain most if not all of your memory, but on the other hand, seemingly small problems can have huge effects on memory  . I would love to know just how many memories we could cram in there - what is your brains capacity??
Adam |
Like I said, they actually know very little about memory and even less about consciousness. If they did, we'd know a hell of a lot more about what it is to be human and most head shrinks would be out of a job.