Episode 2.42 // Someone Else's Memory

What is memory? The Oxford English Dictionary defines memory as the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. Or something remembered from the past; a recollection. But the OED doesn’t weigh in on the factual accuracy of those recollections, nor does it mention how or where memories are stored. Our current understanding is that they form and are stored in our brains. Our brains after all are the motherboards of our bodies, but what if memories could also live somewhere else within us?

SOURCES:

• https://theconversation.com/where-are-memories-stored-in-the-brain-new-research-suggests-they-may

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-memory-traces-exist-in-cell-bodies/

• https://www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sensing-and-behaving/learning-and-memory/2018/storing-memories-i

• https://discover.hubpages.com/health/Cellular-Memories-in-Organ-Transplant-Recipients

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• Another person's heart: magical and rational thinking in the psychological adaptation to heart transplantation

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