ABSTRACT
In this chapter there is an attempt to answer the question: How can we recover or re-experience some events or some simple test situation as, for example, a number or a word sequence? This problem is discussed in two levels. In the first level it is a problem of neurobiology concerned with the structural and functional changes in the brain that form the basis of memory. It is attractive to conjecture that with memories enduring for years there is some structural basis in the way of changed connectivities in the neuronal machinery. This would explain that there is a tendency for the replay of the spatiotemporal patterns of neural activity that occurred in the initial experience. This replaying in the brain would be accompanied by remembering in the mind. The second level concerns the role of the self-conscious mind. This is essentially a development of the theory formulated in chapter E7.
