Thanks for the " memory "

 " Magnetic resonance imagining ", says an AP story today (Aug.21 )

    ( Projo, " Scientists pinpoint memory -making regions of the brain " )

    can now let researchers peer inside the human brain " at the split

    second it creates a memory ".  If we can just understand the bio-

    mechanics of the memory process, we are not far from the beginning

    of understanding human CONSCIOUSNESS - almost universally believed to

    be a " spiritual " phenomenon .

          One noble application of the new insights would be a cure for

    the most cruel Alzheimer's disease - which almost completely destroys

    important memory making centers.

        A less noble application : more effective TV and radio commercials!

    To be sure without a long term memory we could never be very unhappy

    or miserable. The evil idea of REVENGE would be inconceivable. But we

    also would not be HUMAN !

        News like this -" scientists pinpoint memory-making regions " -

    is of greater consequence in the long run for humanity than these

    ephemeral and often silly headlines we read daily in the paper:

       " Monica Tells All ! "  ..." Lesbian Actress Comes Out of Closet ".

      According to the article the MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION is : " What

    makes your brain more likely to react to one item over another ? "

          Just a layman's guess, but haven't popular memory experts

    already in part answered this question ?  We react to the

    already FAMILIAR, what we have already experienced, what we already

    know.

         A common experience is this : one day we learn the meaning of

    a very strange looking word. Then - often the very next day - it

    seems to pop up everywhere in our reading!

        It seems that we SEE only what we are mentally prepared to

    see.  In the final analysis we are an EYE WITNESS only to

    our own universe. But SANITY demands that it not conflict with

    the universe of other people- at least not too much !

          Perhaps the Memory- not the eyes alone -  the Memory

    is the " window of the soul ".