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Old 11-09-2006, 11:39 PM   #44 (permalink)
Patricia
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Originally Posted by David Hausladen View Post
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 .
Actually, right or wrong, I thought it was really insightful. I can see this as a plausible possibility.

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Originally Posted by Scott H Young View Post
If you believe in a subjective reality then the real question is where is your body within your consciousness?
Very good point!
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