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Do memories and/or brain functionality rely on volatile storage? So if you die, that storage is gone. How our brain works may rely on more than the structure o
by idatum 2y ago
Do memories and/or brain functionality rely on volatile storage? So if you die, that storage is gone.
How our brain works may rely on more than the structure of the brain. When you are brought back (booted?), things may not work the same.
- vundercind 2y agoFrom what I've seen of research on apparently-dispersed storage of memories in worms, I'd not be at all surprised to find that a human brain separated from a body has (assuming we could "boot it up" in that state, as you put it) lost a lot of memories or functionality beyond the obvious, even assuming we could perfectly preserve everything present in the brain per se.
- OscarCunningham 2y agoPeople get struck by lightning or have epileptic fits, and it doesn't wipe their personality.
- tim333 2y agoNot volatile storage for most of it. If you get knocked out or similar you have most of the memories. It probably is partly down to the structure of what's connected to what and parly chemical changes at the synapses, although I don't think it's fully understood. It'd make it pretty hard to get memories out of a brain sample as it's hard enough just to see the structure in an electron microscope. I don't think they have any way to log the chemical changes in the synapses presently.