In Other People's Skins

These are some stills of an art installation shown inside the cathedral, called "In Other People's Skins," by an artist named Terry Flaxton. You can see a video someone made of the piece, here. I loved sitting at the table in the pitch black watching it, and watching other people watch it. The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is a very cool cathedral.

A few days ago I mentioned how tissue, such as muscle, fascia, or bone, can hold memories, emotions, and trauma. Held in the tissues, not necessarily interpreted or stored by centrally located neurons. I thought the following statement was interesting, from a research physicist at NASA,

If we can store a symphony on a piece of plastic tape, and a video with sound on a little more complicated but still molecularly simple piece of plastic tape, it certainly seems reasonable that something as complex as a piece of muscle or liver could store the memory of an experience and its attendant emotion.