Memory And Cosmology

Here is a question to ponder about your brain. Think of all the memories that you have about all you have ever done and seen in your life. Remember also that you probably have a whole storehouse of memories that come back to you with some type of cue, such as hearing an old song. That can only mean that the memories must have been there all along.

Now, consider that the functional part of your brain is really no bigger than an apple or an orange. Aside from memory, the brain has a great number of other tasks, from movement of involuntary muscles to processing the information received from the senses. Furthermore, the material of which our brains are composed is up to 90% water.

So, here is the question: How, in physical terms, can all of the memory that the average person has be stored in a volume the size of the brain?

Every bit of information that your senses ever receives leaves an impression on the brain. But how can it be possible to store it all? Storage cannot be accomplished in units as small as the molecular level, for example, simply because the stored information must be accessible to some read/write process, just as in a computer.

My conclusion is that there is absolutely no way our brains can even begin to store the unfathomable volume of information that we have in our memories if the brain is, in fact, the three-dimensional object as it appears to us. It is not necessary to go into brain physiology here. In memory units, such as the bits in a computer, it is utterly impossible to store even one percent of the memory of the average person in a manner that can work with the electric input/output process that the brain uses.

How can we possibly have all of the memory that we do, considering what must be the strict limitations of brain capacity? As far as I know, it has never been demonstrated that there is, in fact, any kind of limit to how much memory a person can have. Also, notice that the size of a person's brain does not seem to have much to do with the volume of memory that they have.

There has just got to be some kind of hidden memory storage somewhere. But how can that be?

Now, consider my version of string theory "The Theory of Stationary Space". In the theory our bodies and brains, as well as all matter, is not really composed of the sub-atomic particles that we perceive. All such particles are actually one-dimensional strings stretching across the universe from the site of the Big Bang, which began the universe as we know it.

Our consciousness progresses along the bundles of strings, of which our brains are composed, at what we perceive as the speed of light. This is why the speed of light seems to us to be the maximum possible velocity. Motion, including heat and electricity, results from our perspective because the strings, and bundles of strings, are not perfectly straight relative to one another.

This means that our brains are actually four-dimensional, not three-dimensional as we see it. This explains why we can store such a fantastic amount of memory in such a strictly limited space. Your brain stretches backward, in the fourth dimension of space that we perceive as time, to your birth.

Whenever you remember something in the past, your consciousness actually travels back in time to that point. Time, of course, is not really time but space. Your consciousness is continuously moving along your bundle of strings, at what we perceive as the speed of light, but the places where the consciousness has already been are still accessible.

This past access is instantaneous, it is not limited to the "speed of light" as we perceive the movement of information to be. This shows that there is really no such thing as the speed of light, this illusion is produced by the movement of our consciousness and creates the present, in relation to the rest of what we perceive as time.

How could it possibly be otherwise? If this is not true then how can our brains possibly store so much memory?