Tag: Memory (file storage image)

Senior man looking at empty bench and remembering his friend, loss, memories

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Michael Egnor
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February 26, 2024

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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Anthony Grayling, Brain damage and memory, Duncan J. Richter, Engrams and memory, Ludwig Wittgenstein (books about his philosophy), Ludwig Wittgenstein on memory, M.R. Bennett, Memory (file storage image), P.M.S. Hacker, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Wiley-Blackwell 2003)}

Why Can’t Our Memories Be “Stored” in the Brain?

_{The image of storing and erasing memories is popular due to computer technology but it is not relevant to how the human mind works} _{Michael Egnor

February 26, 2024

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

When we talk about memory, we often use word pictures that make it seem as though memories behave like material things but they don’t. Read More ›