Where do memories come from?

Question

If you think back to a memory of your childhood, you can remember it, but why?
Because not a single atom of your body exsists in you now that exsisted in you then.
So where do they come from?

Answer 1

When the body sheds old cells to be replaced by new ones it doesn't happen all at the same time, in fact it is a very slow and gradual process. The old cells give the information to the new and so on and so forth.

Answer 2

What happens when you experience something is that your brain takes that information and in a period of about two weeks transfers it from short term memory to long term memory. Once it becomes a long term memory, the strength of the memory is dependont on how many future connections your brain makes to that memory from other memories and associations. I don't think your assertion that none of the atoms are the same is true, do you believe that about your computer's hard drive?

Answer 3

As said somewhere above (not sure how many people are posting their answer as I'm replying) the cells in yer brain transfer their imprinted images and knowledge to tha new cells, tha problem is recalling those buried deep thoughts. Some how when you are listening to a certain song or in a position or circumstance it triggers something wherein you remember why you were doing that and what you were doing and a little ways of what led you to do it and what happened after you did it, I dunno why these triggers don't get stored away as well, but its a good thing methinks.

btw, ye have a great myspace :)

Answer 4

I do think you'll find that cells multiply and make an exact copy of the original so it wouldnt matter if the original cells that stored the memory were gone.
Although I think that memory storage is alot more complicated than that, I'm not a neurologist so I don't care too much.

Answer 5

wow good question. . .I would think that some memories come from the power of suggestion. I notice this a lot with my daughter. My grandmother passed away last yr and my daughter is only 5 but speaks of her great grandmother as though she has lots of memories of her, but I notice most of what she says is from stories I have told her, she just retells them in 1st person. . .however, I have memories of being young that I can actually "picture" the event in my mind. My dad says he can remember crawling around with a bottle in his mouth. . we tell him it's b/c he didn't give the bottle up til he was 12! LOL

Answer 6

Your Soul Contains alot of Those.

You are a Spirit (invisible being, look just like your Body)

You have a Soul (mind, will and emotions)

You live in a Body

You soul is an Invisible Spiritual Super-Computer that you (a Spirit) use to do things!
Like Remember!
Dream!
Imagine!
Hope this helps.

Answer 7

They are physical things and are stored at a level of matter lower than the atomic one.

Answer 8

How about the way music reminds us of what we were doing when we heard it? It's remarkable.
P.S. I saw the number on the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Answer 9

memories came from one part of your brain that function to recall memories. memories came from a collection of experiences like that of what you've had as a child, and because it is you who had experience such thing, it will be retained in that part or portion of brain that when you grow up, you'll recall it and that's what we call MEMORIES!

Answer 10

Memories are not atoms. You can not touch memories because they are stored in your mind. That is just how the mind works.