Question about memories.

[conuly]

Where do they go when you're not thinking about them? I mean, you don't remember everything all the time, right? Some things you may have trouble recalling (the word is on the tip of my tongue!), but even the things you remember easily (in fourteen hundred ninety two...) you don't remember *all the time*. Most of the time, they're... not there. Your current thoughts are there instead. So where are the memories?

Comments

[zathras26.livejournal.com]

I read many of the same SF stories that you did that used memory RNA for fantastic purposes... in fact, I'd still be reading such stories today if the Internet weren't such a chronovore (I need to keep working on getting on top of that).

One theory I've heard about smell being a stronger memory trigger than other senses is that the smell center is physically more proximate to the memory center in the brain than the other sense centers are, the idea being that since the signals don't have as far to travel, they're more likely to trigger memories.