Are they still “imprinted”?
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The brain is biochemical. That means it uses living cells and chemicals to function.
After death the production of the required chemicals to continue functioning ceases. This results in the decay of every part of the brain.
We currently dont know how to retrieve”or view memories in the brain. However, we do know that memories are not contained in a single cell, but rather a pathway of cells. This implies, and has been shown, that damage to those areas prevents the memories from being retrieved. In other words, damage to the brain (decay or otherwise) prevents memories from being accessed.
Memories, to the best of our knowledge, do not exist independent of the brain, or in isolated parts of the brain. Instead, memories are part of the “fabric” of the brain. Once that fabric is damaged we do not know a way to repair it.
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