JNLRMI Vol. II Nr.2  July 2003

Are Memories Really Stored in the Brain?
A Quantum Theoretical Non-local Model of Human Memory

Nicholas H.E. Prince

URL: www.emergentmind.org/PDF_files.htm/NickPrince.pdf

Abstract

The possibility of a radically new mechanism to explain the functioning of human long-term memory is considered.

After reviewing orthodox nodal and connectionist (internal) memory models, an alternative model is proposed. This model assumes at the outset that memories are not stored in the brain at all. Rather it is proposed that the brain operates more like an aerial rather than an internal memory storage device. The model assumes also that decoherence effects do not invalidate a quantum theoretical treatment of the brain subsystems responsible for memory recall and it is shown how memories are recovered atemporally (non locally in time) from at least the past null cone of the recipient. 

The cosmological consequences of the atemporal physics underpinning the model are reviewed in terms of the nature and emergence of well defined sub-atomic particles in early times following the big bang. Also it is explained how the model gives a quite natural explanation to certain reported effects such as E.S.P, psychic phenomena and reincarnation experiences.