Research Paper on:
Memory and the Brain

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to speak, how to walk, or how to do our job. In remembering we become functioning as well as developing human beings. However, there has, for many centuries, been a  great deal of debate about whether or not memory is contained in the brain itself, or whether there are events which trigger responses which gather information that brings about memories.  With that in mind the following paper examines 9 different essays, or articles (faxed in by the student requesting this paper). These articles all have something to do with the  condition of memory. Following the examination of the essays is a discussion of whether or not memory appears to be stored in the brain. Memory and Recognition by  Gordon Baker In this particular essay Baker begins by going over some theories and arguments presented by Wittgensteins. He indicates that "There are relatively few remarks on memory and recognition  in Wittgensteins writings, but those that do occur are of great importance...Wittgenstein points to the two related pictures that mould our reflections" (Baker 480). One of these involves recognizing an  object based on a picture one has in their possession. "Memory makes possible such a comparison: by preserving a picture of what has been seen before" (Baker 480). He then  illustrates that the second of Wittgensteins perspectives involves recognition. "Recognition is not so much a matching of two impressions as a coincident of the perceived impression with an antecedently stored  one. Hence recognition is not a comparison for match or mismatch, but a matter of fitting or coinciding" (Baker 480). Baker then illustrates how Aristotle thought that "memory...must be  of the past. Sense-perception generates in the soul, and in the part of the body which is its seat, viz. the heart, something akin to a picture" (481-482). This picture