memory transfer

[AntonioLao]

What separates a person from the dying body is the memory of the past, the present, but hardly the future. Although each visionary sees the future as though it has already come to past, few can truly describe vividly complete details perceived by the five senses. On the other hand, each person’s memory of the past and the present should have an almost perfect record of all five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch gathered from personal experience. If all these electro-chemical impulses as recorded in parts of the brain can be downloaded into permanent memory chips then human memory transfer is achieved.

Since it is believed that the human body is dispensable, as a shell, it is disposable. However, the memory stored inside this temporary shell is permanent and forever. Mathematically speaking, this memory cell is analogous to an infinite series with unique patterns of rational terms summation or subtraction or both. These sum ability and subtract ability to a converging limit made each infinite series unique. For some, their memories might conform to Fourier series, trigonometric series, arithmetic series, geometric series, or even power series. For others, they might be combination of some or all of these distinct series. The various combinations then give multiple limits of convergence similar to persons with multiple personalities. However, quantum mechanically speaking, these series provide the superposition of imaginary wavefunctions that act as probability waves whose integral of squares (not square of integrals) becomes the actual physical waves stored in a person’s memory.

[labelwench]

Sooo.....hypothetically, it could be possible, to download the brainwaves and memories of a dying person by means of appropriate technology and store this "data" until such time as a new physical body were to become available, possibly by means of cloning, at which time the memories could be reintroduced into a human being.

Now that's what I would call an accelerated learning curve!

Would one's personality transfer as a part of this process?

The possibility of the data being tampered with or in other ways manipulated comes to my mind as a concern.

[SteveA]

What separates a person from the dying body is the memory of the past, the present, but hardly the future. Although each visionary sees the future as though it has already come to past, few can truly describe vividly complete details perceived by the five senses. On the other hand, each person’s memory of the past and the present should have an almost perfect record of all five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch gathered from personal experience. If all these electro-chemical impulses as recorded in parts of the brain can be downloaded into permanent memory chips then human memory transfer is achieved.

Since it is believed that the human body is dispensable, as a shell, it is disposable. However, the memory stored inside this temporary shell is permanent and forever. Mathematically speaking, this memory cell is analogous to an infinite series with unique patterns of rational terms summation or subtraction or both. These sum ability and subtract ability to a converging limit made each infinite series unique. For some, their memories might conform to Fourier series, trigonometric series, arithmetic series, geometric series, or even power series. For others, they might be combination of some or all of these distinct series. The various combinations then give multiple limits of convergence similar to persons with multiple personalities. However, quantum mechanically speaking, these series provide the superposition of imaginary wavefunctions that act as probability waves whose integral of squares (not square of integrals) becomes the actual physical waves stored in a person’s memory.

Consider something with regard to memory - how accurate a record of past events is it really?

At a minimum it is obviously not a perfect recollection - I'm certain I ate various meals meals last week, but I doubt I could remember more than a few of them and vaguely at that.

Now also consider this - when do memories occur? Well they occur as experiences 'now', just like any other experience but with a different context of familiarity, as if they'd already happened.

Well consider what else can occur now with a similar form of familiarity - Deja vous.

It's also not entirely uncommon for people to believe they remembered something that appears unlikely or impossible to have ever occured. Brain malfunction? Well the entirety of experience could be considered in a similar manner - what makes one thing that's felt to be known with confidence different from something else known with confidence if the two disagree? (I had one experience like this where I woke from a dream and believed events in the dream had really happened in my past, but they clashed with reality but it felt so familiar that if reality had agreed with the dream I'm certain I would have gone along never knowing that my "past had been altered" - then again, my memory of the memory may be wrong )

What if the sensation of remembering was similar to any other perception like feeling something soft or tasting a specific flavor. In this case, the past and memories are not actually things that need to have ever been experienced - I know it seems like it could not be possible - some events in the past are so vivid that they're almost real at the moment of remembering and so how could that be something simply imagined or believed? But that quality of vividness is also present in dreams, which can seem real at the time (and may as well be considered a real experience - otherwise we'd have to start taking every experience as potentially an illusion, so I think all experiences are "real", but that reality may not operate in the manner it's typically assumed to operate).

Notice also the future is an unknown and not experienced, well the past is also not experienced though it's remembered, but it's remembered 'now' and so we could see the past and the future as identical in that they represent the current experiences, but with the past being denoted by the presence or absense of a perceptual quality of familiarity and the future with a quality of expectation, whereas the present possesses a certain quality of vividness. (Personally, I think the universe is much like a physical memory - people die and forget, but the universe retains a record)

[labelwench]

(Personally, I think the universe is much like a physical memory - people die and forget, but the universe retains a record) Originally posted by SteveA.

Perhaps our very existence is at the whim of the universe, and that each individual journey is but a creation of the infinite cosmic 'mind.'

Or that some of us, through no intent or action of our own, are but 'corrupted data'.....

[SteveA]

The ghost(s) in the machine ... that's also what a programmer looks like.

[AntonioLao]

Would one's personality transfer as a part of this process?

I would hope so. On the other hand, personality is just the outward objective appearance of a person to others, it is secondary to the inner characteristic that make a person unique. In the same context, we can suggest that personality is the limit of the infinite series while characteristic is the unique term found in the infinite series. for every infinite series there is only one personality but infinitely many characteristics.

[labelwench]

However, the memory stored inside this temporary shell is permanent and forever. Mathematically speaking, this memory cell is analogous to an infinite series with unique patterns of rational terms summation or subtraction or both. These sum ability and subtract ability to a converging limit made each infinite series unique. Originally by AntonioLao

That memories are permanent and forever, I am not disputing. There does seem to be the capability of 'editing' a memory as one acquires additional experience and memories.

One example is when a person learns something, but as yet has not applied that information, having only learned the theory.

Now one goes on to do practical work, related to the theory, and then the two sets of memories come together and are stored as one set of memories. The original memories are still there, separately, but they will not be the first to come forward unless actively sought.

And then there is the experience of retrieving and using a piece of knowledge that you cannot determine how you can possibly know same, it not being something that you knowingly have experienced or 'learned'......

Any thoughts on that?

Regards,

Labelwench

[AntonioLao]

seem to be the capability of 'editing' a memory

As long as it stays in the working memory or short-term memory then editing is possible. For hard-wired long-term memory editing is, I think, impossible. I memorized the multiplication table in Chinese now I can't erase it and each time I multiply I translate the answer from Chinese to English.