How does memory work?

No one knows. Repeated experiments have failed to locate where
memories are stored in the brain, casting doubt on the
conventional assumption that memories are stored as material
traces. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert
Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss various kinds of memory, from
episodic memory to habits. They consider how memory is linked to
emotion and place, drawing on insights from Aristotle to AN
Whitehead. Rupert’s own work has led to the theory of morphic
fields, within which all self-organising systems dwell. They also
ask about Indian ideas of memory and how that is related to ideas
about reincarnation and the possibility that everything that
exists lives, in some way, in the memory of God.