Wednesday, 17 October 2018

Another way of looking at 'Memory'.

What is the place of memory in man?
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What is biological-memory?
How it is encoded into genes?
I was watching this video.
So, there is a 'process' that is quite 'mechanical' and could be viewed, studied and understood in this way.
This is stored in the genes / RNA / cells.
There is 'encoding' and transcription there are mRNA, and that 'hairpin-section' as described.
That is how the body as an organism, functions in totality as a process.
Could this memory be recorded in the same way like the memory of events is stored in the brain?
Ordered sequences of memory in terms of thoughts, words and images, sounds and feelings again in some abstract forms of all these kinds constitute what is named 'memory'.
The whole play is enacted repeatedly in many different ways.
And there is no fulcrum, a point around which these things revolve or hang upon.
Yet a fictitious center arises and appears as the monitor that governs and manages, controls and regulates the full play.
Is not this center really again a part of memory?
This is the paradox.
The same life that creates, nourishes, different innumerable organisms takes the sense of the individual-being in all them.
This individual appears and subsides moment to moment and derives an apparent sense of permanence and continuity. Assuming the physical body as itself it extends one's existence in an assumed past and an imagined future. This faculty of the mind is called intellect. And only after this intellect triggers the 'thought', the thought-based memory becomes important to such an extent that the fact that the sense of individual itself a notion is just ignored, and ultimately forgotten too.
Then the seeking of permanency of this individual, which comes into being and disappears moment to moment becomes the obsession. A greater and much more powerful individual / entity is then imagined Who controls all and the whole life, though where and how this Lord or the Master lives His or Her life is never questioned.
Is there a life of one who lives in isolation, away from the Life itself?
Is not all memory but the translation of past and the future in now only?
The memory that is in the form of information is not the thing that really exists.
And, What exist or just 'IS', is not subject to memory.
Nor could be ever made so.
But What 'IS' is not just dead matter.
It is the only Life that knows no 'other'.
It is the 'Otherness' no one ever comes across.
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