What does a memory look like?

The story team asked experts the question, and get the answer: we really don’t know. With current technology, we might have no ways to know the 真面目.

However, it will not prevent all the imaginations/assumptions made by people. First, it must like a huge web; think of the neural network, the association of things, shapes, words, events, concepts. Second, the web has some features like: being hierarchy, organized by theme, with multiple mode etc. People use all the verbs one might be familiar in other situations: to build, to construct, to activate, to compare, to link, to weave…

Without the direct experience of the memory, one can only make the guess. Semiotics at least give a hints: inside the memory, at certain stage, those signs have the physical shapes in our mind, the containers, storehouses, transporting channels, and ways of connecting must be similar to the semiotics world to some degree.