(2017-09-01, 09:51 AM)Titus Rivas Wrote: [ -> ]Is there a non-physical memory bank? I hold that there is and that its existence can be demonstrated analytically.
See my paper Metasubjective Cognition Beyond the Brain
Here's something I came across in my own work.
Several years ago I had a lucid dream.
I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade and was sitting in my classroom listening to my teacher talk about whatever, at the blackboard.
I looked around in amazement at the class, and saw that I not only recognized every kid there, I "knew" them the way I did all those years ago. I remembered where they lived, what their mother looked like and even the color of their bike.
Out at recess I was talking to one of my friends and we were talking about meeting at his house after school. He suggested I call him when I got home so we could figure out details.
What I discovered at the moment is that I knew his phone number!
When I woke up from the dream, I did what I always do, I wrote it all down, including his phone number.
OK, so a skeptic can simply say that I still remember this stuff from my childhood. I can't prove that wrong, but I CAN tell you that if someone put a gun to my head right now and demand that I tell them that number, I couldn't.
Also, and this again is hard to prove categorically, in my career as a storage engineer I got very familiar with the process of:
A- Assessing the amount of storage required to perform a particular task
and
B- determining the maximum storage capacity per cubic area.
After some thought and calculations, don't believe the human brain has the physical volume, not by a LONG SHOT, to store all the experiences we have ever had. Furthermore, I read something recently which said that analysis has shown if you were to digitize a typical snapshot of time and record the audio, visual and cognitive brain operation the entire brain's memory capacity would be exceeded in a few hours. Now imagine you were to store an entire lifetime of this stuff? We are not even in the right order of magnitude to do the job.
Yes, I am told that all "unimportant" memories are expunged in a daily process of dreaming., but my experience has shown this isn't the case. We retain even the most mundane of information, I would guess, forever.
So here's my take:
1- All unimportant memories are NOT expunged as I have seen, literally, in my dreams (some lucid) many times.
2- We retain most, if not all of our memories
3- Most of our memories are inaccessible to us, most of the time
4- There is a process where we can access normally inaccessible information, and this process is available in some dreams and reportedly other states of mind.
5- I feel there is insufficient capacity in our physical brain to store this stuff based on personal calculations, and 3rd party testimony.
6- We have all heard stories told about detailed past life review and a thing call the "akashic records". These also allude to the comprehensive storage of all our memories (and thoughts) from ALL of our lives. It is reasonable that if this DOES exist, it may access the same information source.
The conclusion I draw is that since we do retain access to even mundane memories, and there isn't enough space to store this info locally, there must be some other place where this info is stored. Since I believe (for a multitude of reasons) there is a non-physical aspect of our reality and of ourselves, I imagine this information is stored non-physically.
Consequentially- this method of storage also explains lots of currently unexplained things:
Such as how can mediums access our thoughts and memories, even ones which we have trouble remembering ourselves.
Such as how we can recall past lives in some cases.
Such as in reincarnation where information is preserved somehow after one's death until a new person is born to "remember" it.
Such as how we remember things even when in NDE while our brain is non-functional
Such as how we remember our lives and preserve our personality after death (as reported in the literature)
That's my take on this question.