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JoshuaZ comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 116 - Less Wrong Discussion
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I don't know how well that is going to work after the bodies beings warm for a while and with a fairly big boom.
I wonder if you can Obliviate physical decay and return the brain to the state that it was in immediately after (or better, before) death. It seems unlikely, but then so is thinking with the brain of a cat, so who knows? If Obliviate works by altering brain states, and Magic recognizes a dead brain (so long as not too far decayed) as still a brain with all of its prior states from when it was alive, then it just might work. Obliviate 2.0 if necessary.
Remembering isn't the same as decaying. Forgetting isn't the same as regenerating.
Certainly not, but they're both changes in the brain, and who knows how magic thinks of these things? Magic has very strange opinions about the nature of reality. It's definitely a long shot, but somebody should try it.