![]() The storage of memory is not the only neurophysiological puzzle that becomes more tractable in light of Pribram’s holographic model of the brain. ![]() It has been estimated that the human brain has the capacity to memorize something on the order of 10 billion bits of information during the average human lifetime. Pribram’s theory also explains how the human brain can store so many memories in so little space. In other words, Pribram believes the brain is itself a hologram. Pribram believes memories are encoded not in neurons, or small groupings of neurons, but in patterns of nerve impulses that crisscross the entire brain in the same way that patterns of laser light interference crisscross the entire area of a piece of film containing a holographic image. ![]() In the 1960s Pribram encountered the concept of holography and realized he had found the explanation brain scientists had been looking for. For decades numerous studies have shown that rather than being confined to a specific location, memories are dispersed throughout the brain. Pribram was drawn to the holographic model by the puzzle of how and where memories are stored in the brain. Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become persuaded of the holographic nature of reality.
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