The whole life of a person: all his achievements, experience and knowledge, all this is stored in memory. But where is the memory itself stored? We used to think that memories are somewhere in our heads, but scientific research suggests otherwise.
Recently, the study of the human brain has attracted the interest of physicians and psychologists. In Europe, 380 billion euros are spent on these research annually, which is much higher than the cost of combating cardiovascular and cancer diseases.
One of the main directions in brain research is the study of the localization of higher mental functions in it.
The first discoveries in this area were made back in the late 19th century, when scientists discovered a connection between damage to certain parts of the brain and the loss of certain mental functions, such as the ability to understand audible speech, think logically, etc.
But a real breakthrough in this direction occurred in the 90s of the 20th century after the invention of the method of magnetic resonance imaging, which allowed doctors to freely observe the activity of individual parts of the brain.
In these studies, scientists have identified areas of the brain associated with self-perception and the ability to recognize lies, as well as areas that govern curiosity and adventure. Centers of appetite, aggression, fear were discovered, and areas responsible for a sense of humor and optimism were discovered. Scientists have even figured out why love is "blind." It turns out that romantic and motherly love turns off "critical" brain functions.
But the search for a site that controls memory was never crowned with success. The human brain lacks a department responsible for storing memories. Scientists cannot explain this fact. Renowned brain researcher Carl Lashley, during experiments on rats, found that they remember what they were taught, even after removing 50% of the brain.
There is another mystery connected with memory. If the computer disk does not change and gives out the same information every time, then 98% of the molecules in our brain are completely renewed every two days. This means that every two days we must forget everything that we have learned before.
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Without finding a convincing explanation for these facts, doctor of biology, author of many scientific works Rupert Sheldrake suggested that memories are located in "a spatial dimension inaccessible to our observation." In his opinion, the brain is not so much a "computer" that stores and processes information, but rather a "TV set" that transforms the flow of external information into the form of human memories.
Our idea of memory is inextricably linked with the concept of time, linearly flowing from the past to the future through the present moment. But according to the science of Kabbalah, time in this form exists only in human sensations.
Reality unfolds before our eyes like a film, the footage of which is pre-recorded on film. We call the past frame the past, the one in front - the future, and the one in the projector now - the present. But all the frames of the film exist on film right now, and the past and the future are conditional categories associated with the mechanism of our perception.
Scientists are wondering where is memory stored - information about the past? Where is information about the future stored? These are questions of the same order, and both of them do not make sense, because only the present is real. “Remembering” something, we experience it now. Impressions continuously pass through us, some of which we perceive as the present, and some as memories of the past. Both these and other impressions arise under the influence of the external world, about which we know nothing, except that that "show" us the same impressions.
We do not choose the impressions that come to us, they are determined by the general process of development in which we all participate, but we (in certain cases) can choose our attitude towards them, our response. The changes that occur to us and the qualities that we acquire depend on this choice.
“Frames” of reality exist initially, but the way we see them depends on our qualities. Reality is multifaceted and is revealed to the observer only by the side that he is able to see.
Mikhail Arshavsky