Unsupported Speculation

How one encoding results in multiple different interpretations

Quick little entry here that is ultimately about an unexpected implication about all that we seem to remember.

To skip to the end before providing my explanation, the human brain actually tends to encode into chemical long-term storage many real-life ‘Events’ into one of an assortment of the same encodings, and that different parts of the brain will access a same area of the brain to recall something from the past, and this will result in each of these separate locations in the brain to recall something DISTINCTLY different and about separate events, because the SAME memory location is read differently by each different part of the brain accessing it.

This is because human memory is ‘Duel Dependent’, and what this means is that memory is not like a hard drive in one location that is read by one computer, but instead the origin location of the brain that is accessing a memory location remote from itself has ITS OWN memory, and the origin location’s memory is used in combination with the destination memory location to interpret the destination memory location.

Further, these destination memory locations, even though the chemical encoding of the memory in that location is SET and unchanging, it actually encodes MULTIPLE events from the past with the exact same chemical encodings, and proper recollection of something in the past depends on the origin location in the brain accessing that location and utilizing its own memory in order to obtain one single distinct memory our of several possible. Thus, if a different origin location accesses that same place in the brain, it will remember an event from the past which is an entirely DIFFERENT event in very possibly a different place and time, but it is encoded the same at the destination, bur is read by a different origin location.

This has weird implications. One is that we all don’t necessarily recall things as accurately as we believe we do, because the human brain’s method of remembering anything is to first find one of a large assortment of ‘Pigeon Holes’ in which to associate the event with, and then assign an origin location with its own memory to know how to uniquely interpret that one assigned pigeon hole.

The other is that it may be possible that evolution ‘Discovered’ that many events in the life of an organism which are valuable enough to store in long term memory can all be more-or-less encoded in the same general ways, even though the events may seem quite starkly different from each other. This has to do with the way ‘Events’ tend to transpire and then reach a conclusion, and that if say some sort of geek were to come up with a way to describe all events in some sort of letter code, he or she would find out that most events can be written in the same letter code that other events use as well.

And so the brain found this out too, and all we seem to recall is actually an ‘Encoded Construction’ being accessed by another part of the brain, and then the construction is interpreted alongside a second memory location at the actual origin location of the request, and this results in being able to recall exactly one event.

Do we remember well if all memories have to fit into one pre-encoded construction somewhere in the brain? Maybe, or maybe not. It would be elegant though if it turned out that MOST things in a typical human being’s life can actually be recalled accurately because the brain has learned over the course of its life through experience which uniquely shaped puzzle piece to use for anything valuable enough to need to recall later.

Anything recalled is just one puzzle piece out of the same box of a puzzle with a set number of total puzzle pieces, but the picture on the puzzle doesn’t always show the same image, making it rather ‘Holographic’, don’t you think?