How do we find a memory?
How do we find a memory?
Our collective memory is astonishing. It contains a vast amount of data. I was wondering how we could possibly so fast find a specific memory?
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Re: How do we find a memory?
I'm sure the Physicalists on this Forum will start talking about Chemical changes, Plasticity, and Neurons Firing. But the real mystery is how exactly do the Chemical changes, Plasticity, and Firing Neurons produce an actual Experience of a Conscious Memory of anything? The answer is nobody knows this.
Re: How do we find a memory?
That is another interesting question.SteveKlinko wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 4:39 pmI'm sure the Physicalists on this Forum will start talking about Chemical changes, Plasticity, and Neurons Firing. But the real mystery is how exactly do the Chemical changes, Plasticity, and Firing Neurons produce an actual Experience of a Conscious Memory of anything?
Interesting.
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That happen to me too on other subjects.
Re: How do we find a memory?
Maybe we don’t find the memories, maybe they find us. Either when they are called for, by the environment, they make themselves known, or, if they come about of their own accord, the process is the same.
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Re: How do we find a memory?
The collective memory of humans contains all that is known. It is indexed by keywords. It is mined by search engines.
What goes on in the individual human mind is comparable.
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Re: How do we find a memory?
? There is a vast amount of information not available to search engines.
Re: How do we find a memory?
The memory comes to us in all different modes, one of these modes is when we look for them.
Re: How do we find a memory?
All memory a person has gathered.
Re: How do we find a memory?
What is the search engine and how does it work?commonsense wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:20 pmThe collective memory of humans contains all that is known. It is indexed by keywords. It is mined by search engines.
What do you mean?commonsense wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:20 pm What goes on in the individual human mind is comparable.
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Re: How do we find a memory?
All human knowledge is catalogued online. Google is a widely used search engine.bahman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:05 pmWhat is the search engine and how does it work?commonsense wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:20 pmThe collective memory of humans contains all that is known. It is indexed by keywords. It is mined by search engines.
What do you mean?commonsense wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:20 pm What goes on in the individual human mind is comparable.
I am suggesting that all that is known by an individual human is catalogued by associations or connections. I am not sure what would represent a Google mechanism, but I am postulating that something is fulfilling that function.
In a sense, I suppose, I am modeling the human brain after an artificial one.
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Re: How do we find a memory?
To use the term 'find' for memory is misleading.
The proper term re memory is 'retrieve' thus there is a retrieving mechanism in the brain/mind to bring the memory to consciousness [waking, dreaming, etc.].
Thus there is need to understand the mechanism of this retrieving system understand why memory is so instinctual and fast on recall.
"Fast" in this case is relative and the appropriate contrast is against the retrieval of information within a computer with the assumption the brain works almost like a computer.
There are many types of memory which are managed by different sub-memory mechanisms thus there is a range of speeds the types of memory are recalled.
Why there is such a speed in the recall of memory is to facilitate survival especially remembering what are the dangerous threats and where to find food for survival. Generally, the greater the threat the faster the speed of retrieval especially via spontaneous instincts.
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Re: How do we find a memory?
Ah! Ok.bahman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:03 pmAll memory a person has gathered.
Are you asking for what explanations have been given for how memory works or what techniques are available to retrieve memories?