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I would assume that just as a computer’s storage remains intact after a restart, these frogs’ brains have internal structure, synaptic connections etc that are
by bobbylarrybobby 2y ago
I would assume that just as a computer’s storage remains intact after a restart, these frogs’ brains have internal structure, synaptic connections etc that are preserved after a freeze/thaw cycle.
- kortilla 2y agoThat’s a bad assumption though. Based on our inability to bring brains back to life it seems very likely the better comparison is volatile memory like RAM.
- MacsHeadroom 2y agoAs discussed elsewhere in this thread, butterflies retain some memories formed as caterpillars after every cell in their body changes drastically. They never die but they change immensely and still retain memories, so I'm not sure we know enough to say what good and bad assumptions are here. Also this should be relatively trivial to test.
- gus_massa 2y agoThe nervous system of caterpillars is not disolved during the transformation.