The portion of the brain that contains memory is composed of billions of individual cells. They differ from other cells in the same way that bone cells differ from skin cells.
They have their specific purpose and this is to record experience. How do they operate? There are two conditions of a memory cell on, is what we might be called a virgin cell the other a recorded cell.
We can see them as the memory bank of a computer. They are imprinted electromagnetically with the event. This imprint is clocked into the cell like a sound is locked into a magnetic tape or something like an image is locked into a photographic emulsion. Or perhaps an electric switch has been thrown into the on position and locked into place.
In a relay system, these switches can be activated so that a signal can be routed through a circuit. Whatever information has been recorded on the memory cell bank of the computer can be recalled by making the proper contacts and activating the proper circuit. The memory bank is coded and when we punch out the code the computer responds by selecting the information we want and presenting it as a readout.
Is the same way with the memory cells. When we experience something the five senses send their message to the brain. These are recorded on the virgin cells which are then developed and fixed so that the exposed cell is now a permanent record of that particular bit of information.
They are all part of a circuit which is capable of reproducing the entire event from sight to sound to smell to touch to taste.
We can recall this event if we can activate the circuit. Some of the methods are by coding in the sense of sequence, continuity, relationship and many other methods.
Taken all together they are a process of recall. The words that suggest the original event can activate the memory circuit.
Once on the circuit, you can remember all the details.
from the book "Valiant Thor Presents the Secret Diary of Raymond A Plamer" by Valiant Thor
