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mrguyorama on Sept 5, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Accelerando (2005)

>One might imagine that’s because you lose information that only exists as ongoing electrical patterns.

Or you know, the literal physical damage to your brain cells from impacting the inside of your skull.

Filligree on Sept 5, 2024 [–]

There’s some of that, no doubt, but other events that cause electrical shutdown and reset—even without the trauma—still cause amnesia.

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