Memory is not experience

File name Memory is not experience. File created date 10:43 pm Sunday, October 5 2008

Some theorists might argue for the concept that for personal identity you not only need the same matter or consciousness but for you to be the same person you have to actually experience what the original did. Is this a claim to the ixperiencit concept? You would be guessing without proof that identity of the ixperiencit requires actually experiencing events There are two ways of looking at an experience first an idoriginal experience all the same events in his life as the original does but at a different place or time. A cidentireplica could be made instantaneously and all the experiences that the original experienced would never have been experienced by the cidentireplica. But the memories of these experiences would be just as real or identical to the cidentireplica.

Memory is not experience. If you remember something that does not mean that you have actually experienced something. Belief in memories having been actually experienced

You do not have to experience something to remember experiencing it. When you remember something what happens is that the brain functions in a certain way. Since memories can form a n-d continuum, this means we can make very small changes to each n-d. For instance, if the memory is of a sunset we can make all sorts of very small changes to that sunset. The corresponding memory correspond to (maps to) changes in how the brain is structured and functions.

How does matter record that some thing such as an experience has happened to it?

We know of no way that matter can store all the information about the experiences it has gone through. Each atom would have to have a history of where it has been what it has been part of for billions of years. Externally by an out side observer that information can be kept but there does not exist the complexity to store this much information within an atom. It not only has to be stored but there has to be some mechanism to retrieve this information into a conscious memory. So even though we may know that an atom did not experience some event it can still be apart of producing the memory of that experience

It may get even more complex if the memory is dependent on each atoms connections to external atoms. In other words for a specific memory to occur we need the correct atoms in the correct relationship to each other. It may also have to respond to the system as a whole, thus remembering even more information

Part of every experience is memory. Maybe every experience is memory. How might this be possible? It takes time for an experience to effect the whole brain if it every does. Lets give an example of a sunset. First the light hits the retina. The nerve signals goes to the back part of the brain. Then these signals are processed and sent to other parts of the brain. Some of the nerve impulses signal back to the eye to either open the iris or close in response to the brightness of the signal