Philosophy Wire: Brain. Monitoring. Forgetting.

In a study of epilepsy patients, researchers monitored the electrical activity of thousands of individual brain cells, called neurons, as patients took memory tests. They found that the firing patterns of the cells that occurred when patients learned a word pair were replayed fractions of a second before they successfully remembered the pair. [1] Monitoring how memory works. But why care what happens when we remember? Life is about forgetting. Monitoring what brain does. But why care for what the brain does? We are defined by the moments when our brain stands still. Look at a brain doing nothing. Can you feel all memories flowing? Look at the lake being calm. Can you sense the storm coming?

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