Kalster, i'm getting bored of this. Stop trying to promote psuedoscience when it is not please.
Don't be ridiculous. I am not promoting anything, you are. If you insist that memory is incorporeal, then
you are conducting pseudoscience.
It is said that what you can touch and see is real; what you can see but not touch is virtual; what you can touch but not see is transparent; and what you can neither touch nor see is probably imaginary.
Don't quote standard dictionaries when you are trying to talk science. In science there are particles and energy. Nothing else. You don't have to touch a particle to know it is there.
If it is indeed a set energy stored in a neuron, tell me... what about the argument of having entirely new bodies in about five years? Would that eliminate all memory we have?
This does not apply to the central nervous system! If it did, we would only be paralysed for 5 to 7 years at a time. Why do you think such great effort is being put into trying to get fully specialized neurons to grow?
This point has been made already, but why are there serious effects to memory and consciousness when the brain is damaged or artificially stimulated?
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Not according to doctor wolf who is an extensive psychphysicist. In all his years he can honestly say that ''self'' has never been found to any material unit of the brain. Candace Pert a Neurobiologist would argue against the brain idea and say that consciousness is rather in each and every cell of the body. Until we can pin ''memories'' and the ''mind'' to the body, i'm afraid there is more speculation here than even maybe what i am producing.
Wolf is a trained physicist. Does he have any credentials as a biochemist? Neurologist? Any biological science training at all? I don't think so. Read this and understand it: Just because a suspected cause of something has not been satisfactorily found,
does not mean you can assume any alternative. Experiments have shown an increase in size of certain parts of the brain when a large volume of information is learned. How can this happen if memory is not physical? If memory is not a physical thing, then for once, please, tell us what it is. If you are going to say soul or spirit, then you are headed straight for pseudoscience.
Now you almost certainly CANNOT TOUCH a memory, thus and hence all the points i have been making.
If one said to me that memory has a physical origin, then i would nod and say, ''yes... so does the rest of consciosness,'' but if someone said to me that ''consciousness itself was physical,'' i'd laugh in their face.
Now please, pray tell, how can you say the bolded part and then turn around and say memory is not a physical recording of information? Are you confusing memory recall with storage? Do you think we are saying that there is a literal picture imprinted on the tissues of the brain or something?
The fact is that
many experiments have found direct links between certain parts of the brain and different forms of memory. Damaging those parts of the brain has serious effects on memory, while damage to others has serious effects on a plethora of different areas of consciousness. These facts are indisputable.