Josysclei OP t1_is85xvn wrote
Reply to comment by Splatulance in Does the brain stores information on a volatile or persisted way? If all brain activity shut off, would any memory still exist in case it turn on again? by Josysclei
For example, the bilionaires that freeze their brans in hope of future tech being able to clone their minds. Once a brain loses all it's electrical impulses, can your "mind" survive that? Is our brain like RAM on our PCs that lose everything once shutoff or like a SSD?
Splatulance t1_is873ji wrote
The rate of information decay is going to vary directly with the rate of physical decay, with special importance placed (for non procedural memory) on the hippocampus (edit: and part of the prefrontal cortex), but there is a lot of memory all over the brain.
Which means that the extent to which the neurons are damaged/destroyed is going to determine the extent to which function is lost. Function and memory are the same thing.
Think of it this way: it's impossible to imagine throwing a ball without using regions of your brain responsible for actually throwing a ball. When you remember throwing a ball the neurons involved in throwing that ball are active.
If you damage the region responsible for remembering the sequence of events that led to you throwing the ball, and/or the regions involved in ball throwing, you won't be able to run the "I threw a ball one time" program.
Regarding freezing and thawing: I don't know but I imagine ice crystals would create some very serious issues.
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