What was your first memory? It's never a memory of being a baby - most people's earliest memory is from when they were around three or four years old. But why can we not remember our infant memories? And are they really lost, or just forgotten?
A team of neuroscientists from the University of Toronto set out to investigate, using mice to identify when and how brains forget these memories. The research results suggested that our earliest experiences are not completely forgotten or erased from the brain. Instead, we can bring them back through a kind of direct stimulation. [1]
Try to think of what you cannot remember. It is there.
In your walking. In your talking. In your every reaction.
It does not matter whether you remember it or not.
You are your memories. Especially those you do not remember...
Keep walking under the rain…
You are smiling…
And you can’t remember why…
(c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophy's perspective…
A team of neuroscientists from the University of Toronto set out to investigate, using mice to identify when and how brains forget these memories. The research results suggested that our earliest experiences are not completely forgotten or erased from the brain. Instead, we can bring them back through a kind of direct stimulation. [1]
Try to think of what you cannot remember. It is there.
In your walking. In your talking. In your every reaction.
It does not matter whether you remember it or not.
You are your memories. Especially those you do not remember...
Keep walking under the rain…
You are smiling…
And you can’t remember why…
(c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophy's perspective…
