1. This is a definition of extramaterial or exosomatic memory, according to Wikipedia:
Exosomatic memory is the recording of memories outside the brain. The earliest forms of symbolic behavior- scratching marks on bones- seem to be intended as exosomatic memory. However it was the invention of writing that allowed complex memories to be recorded. A more narrow meaning of exosomatic memory is a computerized information system that interfaces directly with the brain and functions as an extension of the user memory. Such systems have been used as plot devices in numerous science fiction stories. More recently, as scientific knowledge of neurology improves, some are suggesting that such a device may be possible. [1]
2. Plugging ourselves on a computer may expand our memory capacity- and even make it possible that we implant all our memories on a computer chip- so that we may artificially live forever, if additionally we can reproduce an exact biological copy of ourselves.
3. But what if such devices or storehouses are already present in the universe? Take for example black holes or their oriental counterpart- the Akashic records:
In theosophy and anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of all human events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future. They are believed by theosophists to be encoded in a non-physical plane of existence known as the etheric plane. [2]
4. Such a ‘non-physical’ space needs not be ‘irregular’ or ‘immaterial’ at all. It could just be a yet unknown physical field waiting to be discovered and explored.
5. In fact it could be spacetime itself as an extended, unifying and vibrating field, the oscillations of which would make up all the information in the universe as we know it.
6. Whether we call such a universal field ‘spacetime’ or ‘ether’ is secondary. More important is the question how the individual brain gains access and is coordinated or fine- tuned with that field.
7. As far as black holes are concerned, they could really represent such places in spacetime, where due to the enormous gravity all kinds of energy and matter- thus information- are stored.
8. In that sense all the history of the universe- from the life of a star to the life of any living being- could be encoded in black holes and even be reproduced if we knew how.
9. Still the terms ‘black hole,’ ‘Akashic records’ or ‘computer chip’ are names of places in the universe where information can be stored.
10. What if all information is scattered all across spacetime, while each miniscule part of spacetime- let’s say at Planck scale- can contain the whole information- just as holograms do?
11. In that case our own self will be just a specific collection of information or memory gathered from the whole of the hologram.
12. The way such a choice is made is unknown, as it seems that we are the least aware of it.
13. But it is interesting to think that what we consider ourselves is a collection of data scattered all across the universe.
14. Then all our memories will be ‘extramaterial’ because our own ‘material’ brain is just part of them.
15. In that sense instead of viewing our brain as a storehouse of information, we had better treat it as a product of memories itself.
[2]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records]
3/21/2019
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