I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.
We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works.
The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
Memory narrativises itself.
I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.