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Comment author: gjm 04 August 2015 11:13:51AM 0 points [-]

We call it "birth".

Small children are better at adjusting themselves to radically new things than adults.

(Though it's possible that, conditional on cryonics working well at all, whatever technology allows the raising of the kinda-dead would also allow you to increase your neuroplasticity without wrecking your brain.)