Psy-Kosh comments on When Science Can't Help - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 15 May 2008 08:58:49AM 2 points [-]

Just a minor question about cryonics: To what extent does it preserve the synaptic weights? ie, I'm kinda looking toward saving up to sign up, but I want to understand this bit first. It seems obviously likely that it preserves the information assotiated with the neural structure, but what of the information encoded in the weights?

How quickly do those decay after (regularly accepted) death? ie, by the time the suspension process begins, are they still there? How much of _that_ is lost in the suspension process?