[sykic]

My take on the article and in particular the quote that I referenced in my original post is that the author does not think memory is stored in the way that you and I think it is. The way I think of the brain working with regard to memory is analogous to how computers store information. I’m unable to model it in any other way. But then there’s the quote in the article that even if I had a snapshot of the brain at time t I would not be able to reconstruct something meaningful without knowing the history of that brain’s owner.

I don’t know enough to understand how that is possible or why someone knowledgeable about this stuff thinks this. I have basically the same conception of the brain and how it works as you do. But I’m confronted with the fact that a person far more knowledgeable than me thinks otherwise. It is that fact that causes me to persist in my view with caution. The author may be a crank. I don’t know.