Do memories occupy a physical space in the brain?
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Yes, in some form or fashion up there.
In the same way that the energy in a wound up spring really does exist as a physical trait and if you had a very precise scale you could measure how much more it WEIGHS when wound up.
Everything in psychology exists as a real physical thing in reality. Identifying what that looks like is the hard part. It’s likely some combination of electrochemical signals that interact with neurons.
That’s materialism. It’s very popular among scientists. That said, some people don’t believe this. They believe in the “mind-body duality” and think your mind exists somewhere other than the brain. Which a materialist thinks is a silly idea.
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