The article Doesnt go very far to expand our knowlege of memory. I think we should find a way to test the "holographic memory" hypothesis. It seems like the best way to explain our memory. In this view, sensory signals are printed on certain areas of the brain, though not confined to any specific area. The input is first run through a sort of natural algorithm,as in a fourier transform, and can only be retrieved when the proper decoding algorithm is used. this axiom goes a long way to explain how so much information is mixed together in the brain, and why people can still have memory even after a full lobotomy. As in a hologram, every piece of the media contains all the information to recreate the whole picture. Thats why we cant pinpoint areas where memories are held.

Shedding Light On Memory Mechanism

Two additional, recent works, locate again the sites in multicell organisms where memories are impressed:

http://www.bristo...279.html

http://www.physor...831.html

But the mechanism of memory impression and recall has not yet been brought to light.

Several years ago I suggested in "Memory, Sentience and Consciousness", at

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"Some of the challenging interesting things to learn and search about memory via and by neurons are if, like its parent immunity, it is founded only on structural tags or on/also the location of the tags in the brain, and or/also on intimate linkage between the tag and a neuron's dendron, which is a physical modification/adaptation of the OCM, the oldest and most evolved organ of Earth's prime-stratum organism, the genome."

The "memory tag" possibility is discussed at
http://topics.sci...INS.html


The evolotionary tie between the immune and memory systems is so obviously a plain common-sense possibility that it must be scientifically probable...again, as common-sense is the best scientific approach...


Dov Henis

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