Déjà Vu: Memory-Encoding Proteins with Concatenators Bordering End-Caps – Profound Implications for Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease
Current scientific consensus on the topic of déjà vu is essentially that because the optic nerve passes through the hippocampus (the memory-oriented part of the brain) on its way to the occipital lobe (the part of the brain that interprets visual information,) that the process of memory formation, albeit a chemical process that demands the encoding of proteins (a process that takes at least 60-90 seconds) is somehow able to outpace the nerve signals traveling at about 10% of the speed of light over a distance of less than a foot.
I consider this thinking ridiculous and have therefore decided to take a look at this topic to see if there might be a more plausible explanation for why people experience the sensation that the moment in time they are experiencing has been experienced before (without being able to pinpoint exactly when it was that the event happened previously.)
When we encode a memory, we need a mechanism for estimating how long ago the memory was stored, a mechanism that I believe is based upon the import of memory fragments from other associated events (either temporally or conceptually related) and that the brain intermixes fragments of these other pre-existing proteins with the newly encoded proteins in a single strand. A small section of concatenating protein would need to exist that separates fragments of new memory and fragments of previously stored, related memories in order to help the mind to sort out which parts of the protein being read are the “new” memory and which are essentially “landmarks” used to help us to estimate the age of the memory based upon its associations.
Current scientific consensus on the topic of déjà vu is essentially that because the optic nerve passes through the hippocampus (the memory-oriented part of the brain) on its way to the occipital lobe (the part of the brain that interprets visual information,) that the process of memory formation, albeit a chemical process that demands the encoding of proteins (a process that takes at least 60-90 seconds) is somehow able to outpace the nerve signals traveling at about 10% of the speed of light over a distance of less than a foot.
I consider this thinking ridiculous and have therefore decided to take a look at this topic to see if there might be a more plausible explanation for why people experience the sensation that the moment in time they are experiencing has been experienced before (without being able to pinpoint exactly when it was that the event happened previously.)
When we encode a memory, we need a mechanism for estimating how long ago the memory was stored, a mechanism that I believe is based upon the import of memory fragments from other associated events (either temporally or conceptually related) and that the brain intermixes fragments of these other pre-existing proteins with the newly encoded proteins in a single strand. A small section of concatenating protein would need to exist that separates fragments of new memory and fragments of previously stored, related memories in order to help the mind to sort out which parts of the protein being read are the “new” memory and which are essentially “landmarks” used to help us to estimate the age of the memory based upon its associations.
