Atomic Memory

[Jamin4422]

So if you cook those atoms at 5,000 degrees would they still retain the memory?
Could you use the atoms in a water molecule, vapor or the air we breath to store memory?

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http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_computing/article/atomic_scale_memory.html
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[Paulos23]

Just because they stored data (in this case a bit) based on the configration of 12 atoms does mean they have memory.

 

[Jamin4422]

Just because they stored data (in this case a bit) based on the configration of 12 atoms does mean they have memory.

And the difference between data and stored memory is what? Yes of course you have to write and read and that would be an expensive devise. That is not the issue right now. Look at the neuron on the brain and how fancy of a cell that is to transmit and we presume to store memory. There are up to 40 different chemicals involved just to transmit from one cell to the the next.

 

[Paulos23]

And the difference between data and stored memory is what? Yes of course you have to write and read and that would be an expensive devise. That is not the issue right now. Look at the neuron on the brain and how fancy of a cell that is to transmit and we presume to store memory. There are up to 40 different chemicals involved just to transmit from one cell to the the next.

The neuron cell in a brain requires an expencive system to work, including support cells to feed it those chemicals. And it is a far cry from using any atoms for storage, which they didn't do. They had to get the atoms aranged so they wouldn't effect any other atoms or have any atom effect them while not having their state change from a 0 to a 1.

You say presume to store memory. I take it you think memory is stored elsewhere?

 

[Radagast]

So if you cook those atoms at 5,000 degrees would they still retain the memory?
Could you use the atoms in a water molecule, vapor or the air we breath to store memory?

No. Atoms don't have memory.

 

[Jamin4422]

I take it you think memory is stored elsewhere?

Science can not tell us exactly where or how memory is stored. They say in the neuron. Yeah, but that is like saying in the Ocean. Where in the Neuron is the memory stored and how is the memory stored.

 

[Paulos23]

Science can not tell us exactly where or how memory is stored. They say in the neuron. Yeah, but that is like saying in the Ocean. Where in the Neuron is the memory stored and how is the memory stored.

Ah, you believe in dualism. Here is some videos on that.

http://youtu.be/RS4PW35-Y00

http://youtu.be/RZTCK8ZluEc

 

[sfs]

Science can not tell us exactly where or how memory is stored. They say in the neuron. Yeah, but that is like saying in the Ocean. Where in the Neuron is the memory stored and how is the memory stored.

It's stored in the strength of connections between neurons. Much of the mechanism is now understood. One place to start learning something about the subject would be here.

 

[Freodin]

Science can not tell us exactly where or how memory is stored. They say in the neuron. Yeah, but that is like saying in the Ocean. Where in the Neuron is the memory stored and how is the memory stored.

Memory is stored as a recognizable pattern. What this pattern is and what it is composed of is based on the retrieval mechanism.