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Comment author: timtyler 20 November 2010 10:53:41AM *  1 point [-]

Alcor says:

"It is a well-established fact that long-term memories are encoded in durable physical and chemical changes."

Usually the problem is not with freezing - but with thawing. Vitrification improves things further - but even without that an enormous quantity of information seems bound to be preserved. I don't think scepticism about this has much scientific basis. We know enough about the brain, and about freezing to see that a mountain of information will be preserved.

Also, check out the frozen frogs.