Memory Combination Creations

How are new memories saved using conscious thought, without new sensory input data?

Without new data to make a new memory, the brain must create a combination of the data that it already has. How does the brain orient combinations of data, and save that combo as a new memory?

The brain would have to either make a new connection between the data that it has, or access the data it has, and create new memory data as a combination of the other data.

Whether or not the brain could create new data, depends on its method of function for storing sensory input data as memories.

It would seem logical that this method is done by the senses measuring the information that they record (lightwave lengths, soundwave lengths etc.), and storing that information as data in neurons. The neurons would just have to code the information of wavelength measurements that they receive. If those length measurements (of sensory input) were transferred and recorded in a format which can be accessed later, this would be the coding method for memories. If each neuron saved a portion of the coded data, the brain could access multiple neurons in order to make a combination of the data, for a memory.

If coded measurements, is basically the method of storing memories, then this should rule out the method of making new memory combinations by creating new data. If neurons are only coded data of measurements of wavelengths, then accessing combinations of this data should not produce any new information, since all the measurements are already there.

This leaves the method of creating connections between the data. Just as the brain theoretically saves a new memory as a combination of neurons storing information, consciously thinking about memories would create new combinations. When a person learns something new about something which they already had saved as a memory, they are simply making a new combination of neuron data. This new combination (via connection between neurons), could then be accessed in the future, any time any portion of the combination is accessed, as long as it is “remembered”.

So, theoretically, every memory consist of only measurements of wavelengths, which your senses record. And all thoughts and concepts learned and comprehended, and all conscious activity, is only a combination of that data, being accessed by your brain.

If this seems unintuitive and difficult to comprehend, it probably should be, because it seems that way to me, and I’m the one working it out step by step…