Electric Brain

What is the method of flow of electricity in the brain, to neurons, for creating memories?

Assuming that memories are stored as groups of neurons, (as I further hypothesized the plausibility, in comparison to computers’ memory, in my last post; Brain Bytes), and the neural combinations represent measurements from the senses (as I further explained in a post from last month; Memory Information), how would the electrical flow to these neural combos, function, through the process of common experiences? 

Generally, the more you do something, or the more you sense something, the easier it is to remember. This would make sense with the concept of electrical flow to a certain neuron, reinforcing the pathway to that neuron. If that which your senses perceive, sends an electrical flow to neural combinations representing those measurements, then any time a similar neural pathway is accessed, to what is already saved from previous experiences, that same pathway would be reinforced for easier flow in the future. The more times your muscles sense an action, the more times the same neural pathway would be used, until the flow is so easy, you dont have to think about it. The more times you see the same object, the easier it is for flow to that memory, and the more easily and accurately that memory can be recalled. 

Besides electrical flow making it easier to remember the more times that neural pathway has been used, there can also be various connections from 1 memory to another. If sensory measurements are stored as information via brytes (brain bytes (small sets of neurons)), then various experiences of the senses, would access the same brytes, as long as those experiences have similar measurements from the senses. For eg, if seeing a blue sky, activates the brytes which represent the color blue, and seeing a blue flower activates those same brytes, then seeing the sky, might have the connection to trigger a memory of the flower. Those same brytes for blue, being activated, could allow additional electrical flow to the remainder of the neural combo representing the flower, even though the flower is not currently visible. It would all depend on the ease of electrical flow from 1 set of neurons, to another set of neurons.

With humans additional connection between memories, via language, this would make easier links between 1 memory and another. In a way, labels seem to allow a shortcut to categories of things which we sense, and store as memory (as I further hypothesized in a post from last month; Labelling Memory Information). With this connection, of a neural combo representing the memory of 1 word, many memories of various examples of that word can be connected. If the neural combo for the word is activated, it could then cause electrical flow to any neural combos (representing specific memories of examples of that word) which were previously saved as a neural and synaptic connection. 

We would likely not have our method of complex labelled language, to aid in memory connection, if it wasn’t developed using our ability for conscious comprehension of how 1 factor interacts with another. This ability likely causes a whole new range of potential for connecting neural combos and pathways. Language is just a result of using this, which then increases the flexibility of the ability. With our ability to access multiple neural combos, each representing a factor and the cause that 1 factor has on another, this creates new neural pathways of electrical flow, to connect the neural combos. Basically, the process of learning something, seems to function by making a new connection between memories of the factors involved in that which we learned. With this added complexity of neural access, the quantity of neural pathways connecting various neural combos, would be incredible. 

With the potential variances in degrees of which specific neural pathways allow flow, based on the amount the pathway has been used (not to not mention the additional influencing function of neurochemicals, as instinctual positive or negative feedback), the electrical flow of a brain seems to be quite complex. Yet, this function of an Electric Brain seems to be applicably effective for the purpose of creating and accessing memories based on experiences, in this world of vast variability.