Why do we retain memories if all of our cells replace themselves after a small amount of years?

Question

Why do we retain memories if all of our cells replace themselves after a small amount of years?

In: Biology

Answer 1

You don’t store memories like 1 cell 1 memory, concept or idea or some simplification like that. It is more like the connections within them that helps you to build a network and that network helps you to recall information. You also have certain redundancy and you store different memories in different places (easy access and long term stuff etc). But as other redditor said, you [normally] don’t lose your brain cells.