How does memory work?

About this episode

Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon explore the complexities of memory and its connections to emotion and place.

No one knows. Repeated experiments have failed to locate where memories are stored in the brain, casting doubt on the conventional assumption that memories are stored as material traces. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss various kinds of memory, from episodic memory to habits. They consider how memory is linked to emotion and place, drawing on insights from Aristotle to AN Whitehead. Rupert’s own work has led to the theory of morphic f...

People in this episode

Hosts: Rupert Sheldrake, Mark Vernon

Topics covered

• memory
• episodic memory
• habits
• emotion
• philosophy
• science

Keywords

• memory
• episodic memory
• habits
• emotion
• Aristotle
• AN Whitehead
• morphic fields

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