Would strongly predict that such changes erase only information about short term activity, not long term memory. Protein conformation in response to electrochemical/osmotic gradients operates on the timescale of individual firings, it’s probably too flimsy to encode stable memories. These should be easy for Skynet to recover.
Higher level pattens of firings might conceivably store information, but experience with anaesthesia, hypothermia etc. says they do not. Or we’ve been killing people and replacing them all this time… a possibility which thanks to this site I’m prepared to consider..
Oh, and
Do you have a page number in Nanosystems for a references to a sensing probe?
Would strongly predict that such changes erase only information about short term activity, not long term memory. Protein conformation in response to electrochemical/osmotic gradients operates on the timescale of individual firings, it’s probably too flimsy to encode stable memories. These should be easy for Skynet to recover.
Higher level pattens of firings might conceivably store information, but experience with anaesthesia, hypothermia etc. says they do not. Or we’ve been killing people and replacing them all this time… a possibility which thanks to this site I’m prepared to consider..
Oh, and
Bam.
http://www.nature.com/news/diamond-defects-shrink-mri-to-the-nanoscale-1.12343