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The Same (Free verse) by newdawnfades Trying to break our own biological code of behavior
For I will do today what I have done tomorrow
and tomorrow will sink into yesterday.
Days and nights will rise and dip,
with the rays of light,
and dark and night.
Past memories will curl up in a mass
of identical experiences,
and they will all be the same experience
with no distinction or difference
and our entire life will come and go
in a single day, a single memory,
lived in different ways
but always the same.
When our eyes have shut
and our souls have left us,
that will be the same too,
just in a different way.
Up the ladder:
Exfoliation into the winter
Down the ladder:
NO ONE KNOWS
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Posted: September 18, 2003 12:05 PM PDT; Last modified: September 18, 2003 12:05 PM PDTWeighted score: 5.0794687 Overall Rank: 6393 Comments:
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They form a hole in our existence - vast stretches of our life without any record of our having lived it!
I think if you rewrite this poem with this understanding it will even be stronger (and the connection between death and routine that much closer).
Just a thought.
Thanks for the suggestions,
NDF
However I'm not aware of any serious research that suggest the first (I would appreciate any contrary references?) however there is a laundry list of research to support the idea that long term memories are formed only after a novel stimulus:
Here are some references if you are interested:
Cortical cholinergic activity is related to the novelty of the stimulus. - Miranda MI et al. (Neuroscience Letters)
Bidirectional modulation of long-term potentiation by novelty-exploration in rat dentate gyrus. - Straube T et al. (Brain Res)
The role of identified neurotransmitter systems in the response of insular cortex to unfamiliar taste: activation of ERK1-2 and formation of a memory trace. - Berman DE et al. (J Neurosci)
Human hippocampus associates information in memory.
Henke K et al. (PNAS)
Contribution of human hippocampal region to novelty detection.
Knight R. (Nature)
(I'm not trying to be an ass here, I'm just having a discussion and trying my best to keep you honest. There are people with more experience than both you or I who don't know everything that's out there in the literature.)
Give me a little time and i'll be back with my references. I am going to have to peruse those papers you posted as well.
Regards,
NDF