Question

In exhalation what is the inscription hypothesis

Answer 1

The belief that memory is recorded in the brain as a form of writing

Answer 2

The correct answer is:

The belief that memory is recorded in the brain as a form of writing.

In “Exhalation”, by Ted Chiang, the inscription hypothesis is described as a theory the writer does not subscribe to. It stated that every experience is engraved on sheets of gold foil inside people´s brains. Theory claimed that if these sheets were torn apart by the force of head trauma, anatomists could gather the bits of gold leaf and reconstruct the original sheets in an attempt to decode the symbols in which a deceased’s recent events were written.