system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
On a cellular level, what is a memory and how are they stored/accessed in the brain?

I understand that neurons can rearrange themselves to change what other neurons they are connected to. Are memories just a specific sequence of neuron activations or is there more to it? If that is the case, how does a neuron activation pattern incite a picture or a smell in our brain?
gpt
You won't get a concrete answer. From a pragmatic materialist perspective, yes there is some sort of physical structure that lends itself to memory storage within the neural networks in the brain. The problem is we have very little understanding of how this process works.