X-Message-Number: 19024 From: "John de Rivaz" <> References: <> 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.] -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://www.deRivaz.com : http://www.AlecHarleyReeves.com http://www.longevity-report.com : http://www.autopsychoice.com : http://www.cryonics-europe.org http://www.porthtowan.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19024