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I agree with this. Because of the brain's ability to access things which are not exactly constrained to it's physicality, I think the brain acts as a type of radio and tunes into memories. Not exactly sure how they are stored.


> Because of the brain's ability to access things which are not exactly constrained to it's physicality,

Philosophy and spirituality aren't science. Do you have any citations for brain's metaphysical abilities? Unless proven to be true, personal anecdotes and old wive tales aren't valid data points. Apart from it, I haven't read anything about brain transcending the physical.

There is a lot of unknown viz. we don't know what constitutes consciousness, but that doesn't mean it can be attributed to metaphysical. Physical or metaphysical, you need to know for sure - till then, it's "no man's land".


A more down to earth explanation on where the information is stored, if not in the neuron, would be other neurons that the neuron is connected to (and neurons they are connected to, etc.). In fact it seems fairly likely that information in the brain is just stored in the strength of synaptic connections. Just like in the computer memory case, really. Even though a complete data structure might is not stored in a single bit, all data inside it is eventually stored in bits and not in some magical realm "outside of physicality of the computer".


There's a very strong urge to believe that the brain "tunes" into some kind of non-meatspace realm (spiritual, quantum, etc.)

Fairly sure that it'll turn out that it just depends on the massive complexity of neuron/synapse connections, though.

But then you think of concepts like 'group psyche', and twins that are separated from birth but share the same thoughts/feelings over a distance...

Hopefully science will get to the bottom of it soon :)


The twins thing is easily explainable by a programming reference. Seed 2 instances of the same random generator class with the same seed and have them run a million numbers on different computers... the millionth number will always be the same. Humans are just big wet sloppy computers with a little more noise than our PCs (environment is different for everyone, even identical twins are not in the exact same space) so it's likely that twins will more often than anyone else be thinking in parallel with each other from time to time.


"the brain's ability to access things which are not exactly constrained to it's physicality"

What does that mean? Not being snarky, just interested.


Can you cite something? Did you come up with this on your own or did you read it somewhere?




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