Friday, September 30, 2016

How Does the Brain Store a Memory

The psychology of memory and how it exists is one aspect but there is also research to discover where the brain puts the memory.  This goes beyond one location in the brain or the other specializing in vision, etc since the research aims to discover how individual memories are physically stored.  (Science Daily:  Scientists track unexpected mechanisms of memory)

They don't know the content of the memory but they know some kind of memory was stored in that location.  Take that as out as far as your demonic sci-fi heart cares to go since knowing where something is stored means you can screw with it, right?


Here we have some other research in which scientists are developing artificial synapses.  The researchers in the first article are researching synapses to discover where and how memories are stored on them and these ones are researching how to make alternative synapses so right away you sci-fi demons see how much fun they can be.  (Science Daily:  New devices emulate human biological synapses)


It doesn't take Paul Bunyan to leap up to figuring out how to store memories and then using that knowledge to 'program' artificial memory.  This goes back to the way Old School of burning EPROMs except now it's for an android's brain.  Whee, doggie, this is going to get strange.

When they're doing that sort of thing right now, how long can it be before Data from Star Trek is coming up to you and saying, "Trust me."

DARPA is so small change.  Instead of focusing on a volunteer army, fuckin' make one.  With our EPROM androids, we can make a clone army with no trouble.  We can train the whole battalion for peanuts, General.  Yes, sirree.


To really get to the demonic sci-fi, we need the Nefarious Actor back at the Clone Plant and he's the one who has figured out the structure of the physical memories which allowed him to devise an analog to a software worm which he can insert into the android's programming.

(Ed:  is that the one which lets him ruthlessly take over the world?)

The very same, Cap'n.

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