@Clusterfrog 432773 wrote:
Firstly I should point out that although your mind logs most things you do, it does so in varying amounts of detail depending on the importance of the event. Some things that your brain attaches great importance too will become vivid memories (high details recordings) and others will be very vague. Scientists think that a form of fourier transform is used (a way of storing information as frequencies instead of absolute values. In this way instead of remembering how to ride one specific bicycle you remember the ‘shape’ of riding a bicycle and can apply it to all similar movements). Experiencing the same thing more often will then reinforce a memory and increase the level of detail stored in your brain, so after repeated experiences you will have created a high detail version accessible at will. Whether to store a high detail experience is probably decided when the information is moving from your mid to long term memory. If an experience was very traumatic your brain will encode the information in high detail as you will probably need to remember it, if the event seemed insignificant it will just record a rough sketch of the event.
So I wouldn’t say that vivid forgotten memories are floating around your subconscious in waiting to be unleashed, they are there but will only be triggered if a similar pattern is experienced, and then you may only get a vague feeling of familiarity instead of a vivid memory.
As for the universe being infinite, although our universe is not infinite, inifinite multiverse theories are becoming more and more popular and there is even evidence for other universes recently measured in the cosmic background radiation.
Philosophically speaking I think for existence to be infinite and eternal is less absurd then there to be one finite universe so I think this makes sense. There are things out there more strange than we can imagine.
There’s also something called muscle memory that applys to what you are saing about riding a bike. Any physical activity that’s done regularly will be remebered by the muscles that you’re using to do said activity.
Basicaly working similarly to “memory foam” they will learn how tight each muscle needs to be and also remeber the shape they need to be in etc. – this is why even if you are strong you will still need to practice doinging something physical that difers from what you normaly do to get it right as your muscles need to be trained and remeber how and what to do at the time.
It couples with mental memory in any physical activity.
