Posts: 3676
Threads: 354
Joined: April 12, 2015
Reputation:
42
Why Do We Remember things From Our Childhood?
April 21, 2015 at 9:15 am
Our bodies are constantly shedding old dead cells and replacing them with new ones with diminishing returns as we age. I was told that the body takes seven years to completely replace every cell. So all the cells I had seven years ago are gone. How then do we remember things that were recorded by cells that no longer exists?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
Posts: 7318
Threads: 75
Joined: April 18, 2015
Reputation:
73
RE: Why Do We Remember things From Our Childhood?
April 21, 2015 at 9:18 am
It's a myth, actually. Each type of cell has a different lifespan. Skin cells live for three weeks. Our memories are stored in the brain. Brain cells typically last an entire lifetime. Neurons in the cerebral cortex are not replaced when they die.
Posts: 29107
Threads: 218
Joined: August 9, 2014
Reputation:
155
RE: Why Do We Remember things From Our Childhood?
April 21, 2015 at 9:37 am
That's interesting! I never knew that.
I reckon I've got some suppressed memories from my childhood. I am unbelievably jumpy, if anything falls to the floor or someone creeps up on me, I go into this defensive crouch and throw my hands over my head. I really can't help it. I bet it's a trigger from something.
Posts: 3676
Threads: 354
Joined: April 12, 2015
Reputation:
42
RE: Why Do We Remember things From Our Childhood?
April 21, 2015 at 10:08 am
(April 21, 2015 at 9:18 am)Neimenovic Wrote: It's a myth, actually. Each type of cell has a different lifespan. Skin cells live for three weeks. Our memories are stored in the brain. Brain cells typically last an entire lifetime. Neurons in the cerebral cortex are not replaced when they die.
Then is it possible to predict (within a ballpark) an elderly person's death when their brain cells start dying (naturally, not from Alzheimer's)?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
Posts: 25314
Threads: 239
Joined: August 26, 2010
Reputation:
156
RE: Why Do We Remember things From Our Childhood?
April 21, 2015 at 10:15 am
Why do we remember things from our childhood?
Because I was there...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
Posts: 23918
Threads: 300
Joined: June 25, 2011
Reputation:
151
RE: Why Do We Remember things From Our Childhood?
April 21, 2015 at 10:40 am
What little I've read about memory says you shouldn't think of it as a dvd trove. It is more like your brain takes little impressions and stitches together a likely scenario which we call a memory.
Ahhhhhh! 
Only having about 20 to begin with I can't afford the casualties. I used to hit myself over the head with stuff as well, that probably wasn't so smart.
