Philosophy Wire: Memories out of… experience.

When it comes to memory, it's more than just 'location, location, location'. New research suggests that the brain doesn't store all memories in 'place cells,' the main type of neuron in the hippocampus, a structure crucial for navigation and memory. Instead, memories seem to be powered by a subset of hippocampal cells that have little to do with location and more with context or episodes. [1] Experiencing things. Inside space and time. Universes created. Out of nowhere. A cosmos propagating to its death. Moving into its own self out of time. Yes, we can understand this cosmos. But not because we are not part of this cosmos. But because this cosmos is part of us…

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