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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Human memories are stored in flesh

Flesh has to be replaced constantly

When you sleep your memories are being copied and reallocated to new flesh, the things you experience in dreams are just a series of incredibly losely related themes and concepts. In general human memory searching relies on association of concepts rather than any sorted lists or some other silly inorganic solution.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That sounds cool, but I don't think it's strictly true.
Memories that have many pathways won't be lost due to a few broken pathways and are reinforced with further experience: learning or remembering.
Others are simply gone with neurons dying or the pathways getting severed.
Neurogenesis doesn't happen as much in adults, they're the longest living cells in our bodies - adult neurons last a lifetime

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I boiled down the complex neurological system of organic memory in living beings down to a paragraph, of course there is room for a lot of nuance and sophistry.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 10 months ago

I believe this to. Like ram being transfered to slower media but filtered, parsed, etc to keep the important parts.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 10 months ago

I guess this goes here :
https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ?si=TXevA3dqx-9hyZ7u "They're made of meat"

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Flesh has to be replaced constantly

That's more than a tad inaccurate.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Some tissues live a lot longer than others but as a general statement it holds true.

EDIT: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0375-9.epdf