You don’t know that until you’ve actually done the experiment. Some parts of memory may be “passive”—encoded in the configuration of neurons and synapses—while other parts may be “active”, dynamically encoded in the electrical stuff and requiring constant maintenance by a living brain. To take an example we understand well, turning a computer off and on again loses all sorts of information, including its “thread of consciousness”.
EDIT: I just looked it up and it seems this comment has a high chance of being wrong. People have been known to come to life after having a (mostly) flat EEG for hours, e.g. during deep anaesthesia. Sorry.
You don’t know that until you’ve actually done the experiment. Some parts of memory may be “passive”—encoded in the configuration of neurons and synapses—while other parts may be “active”, dynamically encoded in the electrical stuff and requiring constant maintenance by a living brain. To take an example we understand well, turning a computer off and on again loses all sorts of information, including its “thread of consciousness”.
EDIT: I just looked it up and it seems this comment has a high chance of being wrong. People have been known to come to life after having a (mostly) flat EEG for hours, e.g. during deep anaesthesia. Sorry.