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Memories stick around even after half the synapses are gone
- westurner 2mo agoDid this study consider Representational Drift? That functional imaging studies are not replicable in the same patient weeks later. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620897 : > "Representational drift: Emerging theories for continual learning and experimental future directions" (2022) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438822001039 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095943882... >> Future work should characterize drift across brain regions, cell types, and learning. > How do nanotubules in the brain affect representation drift? > There is EMF to cognition given that, for example, "Neuroscience study shows the brain emits light through the skull" (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697995 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697995 > Aren't there certainly quantum effects in the EMF wavefield of and around the brain? Are memories also in or actually instead an EMF field supported by the neurological structures of the brain?