While in the argument there, I was saying that the connections in the brain were the internal state.

So i was talking about just having a lump of non-connected neurons as being a blank state.

I may be wrong there, (some evidence suggests that the neurons may change their DNA to store information . . after all, they don’t use it), but for now i believe that the arrangement and connections of the neurons are the programming/storage/etc. The data.

Take in mind how little I know about biology/biochem/the brain in an academic sense, though.

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And @soron, mentioning MacDouglas . . . define the time of death, please? Even if, can you guarantee that no gases leave the body? That study clearly has no merit, in that time of death is ill-defined, and the bodies were not weighed in an air-proof chamber.

And I’m sure if I really cared, I could raise half a dozen other valid objections.

Sorry, that study always bugs me when someone tries to bring it up.

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@anasi again: True enough, that I wouldn’t be able to think of a non-thought. Let me get back to you on that.