<story><title>MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/123485-mit-discovers-the-location-of-memories-individual-neurons</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amalag</author><text>I agree with this.  Because of the brain&apos;s ability to access things which are not exactly constrained to it&apos;s physicality, I think the brain acts as a type of radio and tunes into memories.  Not exactly sure how they are stored.</text></item><item><author>jules</author><text>The data doesn&apos;t warrant the title of this post. Even if a single neuron is responsible for triggering a memory (which is hard to say based on mice in the first place), it doesn&apos;t follow that the information is stored in the neuron. As an analogy, if we erase a specific bit in memory, whole parts can become unreadable. For example imagine changing a bit in a pointer. That doesn&apos;t mean that all of the information was stored in that bit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irahul</author><text>&amp;#62; Because of the brain&apos;s ability to access things which are not exactly constrained to it&apos;s physicality,&lt;p&gt;Philosophy and spirituality aren&apos;t science. Do you have any citations for brain&apos;s metaphysical abilities? Unless proven to be true, personal anecdotes and old wive tales aren&apos;t valid data points. Apart from it, I haven&apos;t read anything about brain transcending the physical.&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of unknown viz. we don&apos;t know what constitutes consciousness, but that doesn&apos;t mean it can be attributed to metaphysical. Physical or metaphysical, you need to know for sure - till then, it&apos;s &quot;no man&apos;s land&quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/123485-mit-discovers-the-location-of-memories-individual-neurons</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amalag</author><text>I agree with this.  Because of the brain&apos;s ability to access things which are not exactly constrained to it&apos;s physicality, I think the brain acts as a type of radio and tunes into memories.  Not exactly sure how they are stored.</text></item><item><author>jules</author><text>The data doesn&apos;t warrant the title of this post. Even if a single neuron is responsible for triggering a memory (which is hard to say based on mice in the first place), it doesn&apos;t follow that the information is stored in the neuron. As an analogy, if we erase a specific bit in memory, whole parts can become unreadable. For example imagine changing a bit in a pointer. That doesn&apos;t mean that all of the information was stored in that bit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrsebastian</author><text>There&apos;s a very strong urge to believe that the brain &quot;tunes&quot; into some kind of non-meatspace realm (spiritual, quantum, etc.)&lt;p&gt;Fairly sure that it&apos;ll turn out that it just depends on the massive complexity of neuron/synapse connections, though.&lt;p&gt;But then you think of concepts like &apos;group psyche&apos;, and twins that are separated from birth but share the same thoughts/feelings over a distance...&lt;p&gt;Hopefully science will get to the bottom of it soon :)</text></comment>