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Originally Posted by Open Mind It doesn't mean these are located physically in the brain. Memories could be stored in another dimension i.e. only our 3 dimensions are simply more measurable when functioning through the filter/interface/measuring device called the brain. |
Yes, they could be stored somewhere else, but they are still stored somewhere. Ian said "I just consider memory to be a particular conscious experience, and they are no more stored than any other conscious experience."
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Similarly one could view memories as points of time, consciousness could be an individualized, personalized, filtered perspective of past time .... it doesn't mean the past has evaporated from existence, just that time and consciousness has moved on to something new.
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I think it would be hard to argue that a memory is a filtered glance at a static point in (past) time. There is just too much difference between my memory of a past event and the actual event.
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Can it be tested? Yes ...... this is one of the reasons why Rupert Sheldrake's 'formative causation' - a 'presence of the past' needs to be tested properly. It is memory system, not stored locally, theoretically affecting generations of people at an 'unconscious' level that bubbles up into the conscious individualized mind and is not passed via genes or other hysical sense means of communication.
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By all means, test away.
~~ Paul