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Where and how does our brain save and recall memories?

>> No.4652471

in the hypocampus

>> No.4652472

>>4652468
>Implying science fully (or even half) understands how the brain works.

My guess is that memory is stored in chemical form in the brain tissue. Electrical impulses excite that tissue and then redirect the output to be processed.

>> No.4652476

memories are qualia

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>you'll never create a mind transfer device so you can switch bodies with a hot woman and fap in front of a mirror

>> No.4652485

>>4652481
I want to switch bodies with a cute little girl and play with dolls all day without people judging me.

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>>4652485

>> No.4652488

>>4652485
I want to switch bodies with EK and troll /sci/ all day.

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>>4652488
>you will never be the Troll Queen of /sci/

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>>4652481
Last night, I had a dream where I was a lesbian having sex in the 69 position.

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>not knowing how your OWN brain works

Just focus when your doing things with your brain.

>> No.4652503

>>4652501
fucking genius
/sarcasm

>> No.4652504

>>4652497
Last night I had a dream where I was a girl and a cute boy brought me out to dinner at a fine restaurant, then we rented a hotel room and when he got naked he was actually a girl so I jumped out the window to escape her.

Weird as fuck.

>> No.4652507

>>4652504
mine was hot as fuck.

>> No.4652511

http://whatshawt.com/science/brain-memory-code-cracked-claims-scientists-912.html

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>>4652504
Last night I had a dream where I was on /sci/ and there were no trolls and no highschooler and everyone was educated and we were discussing science on a high level all day like for example solutions of the problem of suns made of ice and lava colliding.

>> No.4652520

>>4652512
and whether or not Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is just a game of luck.

>> No.4652541

/sci/ doesn't know

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>>4652504
Why don't you go over to /fit/ they like gays there.

>> No.4652631

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002421

Ignore the "computational" language interpretation (information stored as chemical "bits") which is idiotic, but there might be something to these chemical structures.

My own impression (I don't have data to assert this...) is that memories are not stored anywhere in particular, but spread over many areas, depending on tasks. Also, memories may not be like discrete bits, but more like arrangements of cells configurations which represent and recollect the way the brain reacted to some stimuli.

>> No.4654328

bump

>> No.4654387

Long-Term Memories are encoded via Long-Term Potentiation (LTP) by NMDA receptors. When modulators are bound to NMDA receptors, their ion channels are only opened if there is a simultaneous binding of Glumate to an AMPA receptor at the same time. The subsequent flow of ions causes the production of new proteins which then initiate brain neuroplasticity, encoding memories across circuits. Unfortunately I have no idea how memories are recalled, sorry.

>> No.4654423

>>4654387

Oh, and the Hippocampus is important to memories, but my understanding is that memories are stored across the entire brain, and the Hippocampus' function is to relay long-term memories into an individual's working memory for processing. The hippocampus also likely only plays a role in declarative memory, so being able to learn or remember how to perform a task could remain intact even after damage to the Hippocampus, which would normally hinder the ability to recall declarative memories (like things that happened to you in the past).

>> No.4654511

>hard science

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>neurology
>hard science

>> No.4654523

>>4652631
>discounts theory with evidence
>makes his own theory, even says he has no evidence
>expects others to believe his theory with no proof

fuck you

>> No.4656442

>>4654523
No, I discounted the interpretation of their facts, the "computational" one. On the other hand, there is some evidence from studies on processing of visual stimuli that memories are distributed across large networks and are not localised (discretely placed). I guess it comes down to interpretation what does this scattering of memories throughout the brain means, and my interpretation is that memories are not made of "bits of data".

Also check out the tentative name of the reference I quoted ("Is Memory Encoded in Microtubule Lattices by ..."). If you alread decided you're looking for bits, I guess you're going to reify this belief into your data.