X-Message-Number: 19024
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: Electrical activity and death
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 16:24:39 +0100

> From: "Toby Christensen" <>
> This question has been posed to me, and I am wondering as to how to answer
it:
>
> Upon death, the brain's electrical activity ceases. All information is
lost when brain activity ceases, as the electrons which constitute brain
activity disperse. How then, upon revival, is someone with an
informationless brain to regain the information they lost upon death in its
entirety?
>

This question contains an assumption - that is that all memories are stored
by electrical activity. I doubt whether anyone yet knows exactly how the
brain works. Assumptions like this will become more commonplace the more
people attend courses and learn how computers work and jump to the
conclusion that the brain is exactly the same.

There are other methods by which the program and data within the brain (or
at least part of it) could be stored. One is by physical connections between
neurons, and another is by encoding onto DNA.

If analogue computers using operational amplifiers were commonplace, people
would have no difficulty with the connections between neurons idea -  an
analogue computer "program" was in fact a wiring diagram. [Analogue
computers were once used to solve differential equations.]

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