What is memory?Where does it reside?


Material scientists are baffled in their search for it.If memory is gross matter only, then how does it survive the molecular change that cells are continually experiencing?Something subtle must be existing that is untouched by that change.This includes the nuerons.But yet there are certain chemicals that help in improving the function of memory.Or the reverse can be true.Take an Alzheimer patient who has seeming lost his memory.Is the brain then simply a tool for memory to manifest through on the gross levels, those most concerned with our present conditioned life?

Most here will agree that memory is subtle, a constituent of the subtle body.If that is true then what happens when the subtle body is dissolved at liberation?Or would that only apply to sayuja-mukti?

Are all details then of the souls sojourn through material existence dissolved also?Does the pure soul also have a yet more subtle faculty of memory then that which is part of the subtle body?One which only houses memories connected to our relationship with Krsna?

Help understanding this topic is appreciated.

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