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Material carrier of memory

The known composition of the universe, from galaxies, stars, planets, satellites, asteroids and small debris to molecules, atoms, electrons, neutrons, protons, quarks and so on. , are made up of physical objects. There are also some phenomena in the universe, which are information formed by the arrangement and combination of physical substances in the universe according to certain rules. For example, IT technology is represented by binary in the magnetic field of computer hard disk or floppy disk, and the carrier of biological genetic gene is realized by base pair pairing of deoxyribonucleic acid DNA. Although the total number of these arrangements is huge, they are all composed of tiny basic units, just like a towering building, which, though huge, is also made of bricks and tiles.

People's memory and thinking are also natural phenomena, so they should also be expressed through the arrangement and combination of certain substances, but the current level of science and technology of human beings is limited, and it is impossible to reveal the essence of these material entities.

In The Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio Judge Lu, Judge Lu replaced the ugly wife in Lingyang with the beautiful head of her daughter Wu, but her memory has not changed. If we use scientific methods to restore this process, we can think that we should first put the wife's memory in Wu's daughter's mind, and then put it on her neck. Although modern science and technology can't do this, we can know that ancient people thought that the carrier of human memory was in the human brain.

Modern science believes that human memory is the imprint left by human nerve tissue under external stimulation, and its manifestation is the change of synaptic interval of neurons.

Is the change of synaptic interval permanent or temporary? If it is permanent, its memory should still be there after death. We can not only clone its body, but also copy its memory, so the long-sought dream of eternal life can come true. If it is temporary, after death, people's memory will become blank, just like a formatted disk. According to the knowledge we see in daily life, we should tend to the latter, because in daily life, people will lose their memories when they are excessively hurt or stimulated, which strongly proves that human memory is temporarily maintained by energy, and this maintenance will disappear after death, and memory will no longer exist.