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Originally Posted by RandomJohn  Perhaps [...] the brain is one of multiple interfaces to an immaterial memory. |
I had a weird thought related to this, and perhaps someone better versed in modern neuroscience can shoot it down easily...but consider the following analogy: Our immaterial memory is like the hard drive of a computer (long-term "storage" memory for those not familiar with computer hardware) while our physical memory is like the RAM (short-term "working" memory). In other words, what we have in our brain is just a small part of the total memory available to us, "cached" in our physical body to make it easily accessible to the brain for processing.
Just a thought. Don't quote me on it, it's probably wrong
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