Memories Definition and 31 Threads

In Sean Carroll’s excellent series of lectures about time (Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time), he talks about the past hypothesis: the hypothesis that entropy was lower in the past. He says "it is ultimately that we know more about the past because of the past hypothesis that what we call causes...

So I have an excellent memory. It’s not eidetic but I remember minuscule details that other people shouldn’t. I always did pretty decent in school but I was weak in math. I am a grad student currently going for a degree in Library Sciences. My IQ was tested as a toddler and it was a little above...

I'm working on a project and I've been doing research about memory recall and I haven't found a lot of info on it. I've found info on how memories are formed. A study talks about how memories form in different parts of the brain and play back like a streaming video...

I was wondering why we can not remember any memories of being in the womb?

From what I know, neurons are the only ones that create memories through long-term potentiation. Do plants have any equivalent process? Can they create a "repository of information"? I am guessing not. Other than genetically coded molecules that are reacting to the world outside and perhaps...

I've been reading a little about memory - the various kinds and how it works. Something immediately springs to mind and I haven't found a clear answer. But then I'm not sure if I am totally missing the point and misunderstanding things. When we perceive a scene, we detect sensory stimuli which...

I'm not sure if this isn't the correct forum; but I recently was experimenting with dextromethorphan; and while on the drug, I had a psychotic break. All of a sudden I have retained positive memories from childhood, lost all depression, have incredible amount of excessive energy, and have the...

Is there any research that was done on animal long and short term memories? And short of empirical analysis, if there is none, is there much we could conclude, based purely on what we know about their brains? For example, from knowing which brain parts deal with explicit and which with...

We are taught that in nature, nothing is wasted. Confining ourselves to human beings, when we die our physical bodies get recycled. What becomes of our non-physical memories and experiences?

A review of memory reconsolidation[1], the recent experiment in which memory traces were attenuated[2] and a caveat that recovery of the fear memory is typical in patients [3]. [1] http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v8/n4/abs/nrn2090.html [2]...

What is ferromagetic memories ? I need matter on this help me please, searching so many webs can't get proper matter :(

There is a cookie commercial by Nestle for chocolate chip cookies out right now that talks about creating memories for your children of cooking together. They show a child pulling squares of finished cookie dough off of a waxed piece of cardboard from a packet and placing them on a cookie...

This is going to sound a bit weird to some, but perhaps not so much to others. I haven't a clue as to when I "first" became self-aware. I have memories dating back to age 0. They're as real and surprising as the expression on my Mom's face when I describe the room in which my diaper was...

I just heard "Cherish" by the Association on the oldies station, and immediately flashed back to the Freshman welcome dance in HS. It was a VERY hot song, and it was the first song played at that sock-hop for the Freshman-Senior waltz. I got chosen by a friend's sister. Cute and chesty in her...

I don't know if this belongs in this part of the forum but I'll ask here first. (It might delve into the different subjects of biology and etc.) Whenever I hear people speak about something that happened to them in the past, I'll generally hear them linking the memory to when they were a...

It’s overwhelmingly probable that all of your memories are fake. Consider: Entropy is a measure of the disorder of a system. The higher the entropy, the higher the disorder. If a deck of cards is ordered by suit and then within each suit by ascending rank, then that’s a low entropy...

I'm wondering if we can guess the age of members by what they remember of their childhood? I remember Saturday mornings watching the test pattern on one of the 3 tv stations in our area. Tv didn't start until after 6am, and went off the air at 10pm, except on Friday and Saturday nights. I...

Feynmania--fond/inspiring memories (and ask Wolram to start a blog) I'd like to share this. http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php Thanks to Swans on Tea for the link http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/352 ======================= When I came here to post...

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It's been done already, it makes you wonder how widespread it is. Just posting a photo out of context can completely change the reality of a situation, it doesn't even need to be "doctored". http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071126/sc_livescience/fakephotosalterrealmemories

My bro. told me that it feels good b/c it gives us a sense of accomplishment; legacy. But I saw an old video I havn't seen in a long time and it made my brain access a part of its mind which I don't experience very often. Thanks for the replies!

Hypnosis is used to retrieve "lost memories" in cases of alleged [so called] alien abduction. In fact, I believe that this is how nearly all claims of abduction come to light. Typically, before the hypnosis session[s] start, the person claims to have recurring dreams or other problems that led...

Ah, Indiana. Lived there for years; high school and college there. Maximally insular. The legislature once debated seriously a proposal to define pi as 3 1/6.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/ghostgenes.shtml Genes themselves have memories, swtiches, that could be turned on or off in one person `s lifetime, and passed on to that person `s offsprings. evidences are 1) grandparents that experienced famine, is correlated with...

Checkout this site: http://www.retrojunk.com/ I remember spending plenty of time as a child watching a lot the shows listed in the tv section. Even shows from the 70s like Hanna Barbara's original Tom and Jerry and Spiderman.

Is there a way to erase certain memory from one's brain? For instance, everything in relation to a person? or... certain events about the person... ? well, i mean something besides like drinking... does hypnosis do that? i should say that commonly suggested methods don't work... just curious if...

If an alien species produced memories using process involving an overall negative entropy change, would it have memories from our future? It would appear to us as though these alien memories were being destroyed with an overall positive entropy change (since in our perception every reaction...

lol I know this sounds weird but I was wondering if anyone knew anything about photographic memories. I mean for example does anyone think that it would be possible, now or in the future, to implant a photographic memory into somebodys brain? I mean, if somebody had a photographic memory, could...

New memories or lying? I read http://abcnews.go.com/sections/SciTech/DyeHard/false_memory_dyehard_040414-1.html article today, and I was left wondering whether participants were actually developing a new memory, or if they would be lying to the researcher about a clearly harmless issue...

I don't know if anyone remembers the nintendo game Megaman, but I grew up playing that series. Brought back some great memories. Here's the site http://www.zebox.com/projectx/

You have had deja-vu? I think deja vu expercieces are "raw" dream memories that are trying to surface in the intellect. If you think of it in terms of computers. "Raw" dream memories, residing in the aether, sublte mind, are in a "5th dimensional format," because the aural facilities of the mind...