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SEPTEMBER 19, 2005

I'd like to upgrade to digital.

Have you ever tried to remember something—an experience, an image—but the more you focused on it, the fuzzier it became?  Maybe memories are like records.  The details are etched into the vinyl, but upon extensive replaying, they wear out.

Posted by Meredith at 04:01 PM
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Actually, memories work in a manner converse to that which you have proposed. Extensive replaying of memories makes them more solid, not less. Unfortunately, this also means that they can become solidly wrong as well as solidly correct. As far as the digital/analog function of the brain, I am on the side of the brain being of purely digital function, but not all neuroscientists agree with me.

Posted by: Daniel on October 2, 2005 07:28 PM
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