Sun 24 May
2:00pm
Venue: Ring
Event [166]

Talks

Memories Are Not Stored in the Brain

Victoria Trumbull
We have been told that memories are stored in our brains. Join philosopher of time Victoria Trumbull as she argues this is a radical mistake. The brain doesn't store data like a hard drive. Drawing on the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, Trumbull claims the brain enables memory without containing it, and that time itself stores memory. Memory, Trumbull insists, lives beyond neural storage, and challenges our deepest-held assumptions about the universe, reality, and our places within it. "Favourite thing I've read in a while." — Matt Segall

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