when we die where doe does all the information stored in our brain go?

Answer 1

As the cells die the information will be lost rather like you have trouble remembering your very early childhood.The brain takes about 4Min's to die from the point of cardiac arrest,the blood oxygen levels fall and the brain ceases to function,electrical signals die out and the brain becomes a dormant organ.The information it contained will be lost and the cell connectors that relay the information to other parts of the brains structure will become inoperative

Answer 2

Great question. If we break everything down to the smallest thing we know of (split the atom, which was previously thought to be the smallest, and found a whole bunch of energy particals), well... people talk of energy all the time. Good and bad, and you can feel it. I think that when we die, everything that makes us us, all the energy, disperses again, just as we came together to be a full being when we were born. But it doesn't go just out to the universe, it touches those who we were closest to the most first. Like a pebble hitting the watter has a ripple effect, the closest to the point of impact of the pebble have the most severe reaction to it. So in essense, I think that our energy goes into those we were closest to... which is one of the reasons why when people say "they live on in you" or "they're still with you" makes such perfect sense.

As for the information, well, I think that has the same fate as the energy, but is harder to pass on. It takes generations to get the message across. You would need three generations to think the same exact thought to have it then "born" into the fourth generation. And this is a rough statement, I don't know how many generations it would take or if it's even true, but here's my logic: It's been proven that women who become sexually active and bear children at an earlier age will have children (this is on the female side) who develop to the extent of being able to bear children by the same age as the mother did. So they might develop faster or slower than they might have otherwise, depending on the mother's life (and this generally happens within a couple of generations, I think). So this is information passed on through genetics. The body of the child develops to prepare itself for birthing their own children based on the historical genetic information. So at this level, information is stored and utilized.

It's a very tough question and can be interpreted in so many ways and I honestly don't think we'll have a straight black or white answer for it in our time... if ever. But these are my thoughts on it.

Answer 3

Depends on your faith;

You have one - then all sorts depending on the flavour

You don't - then its gone. The information is stored by complex chemical bonding across a very sophisticated network. Access to the information is unique and is dependant upon the brain being functional (i.e. lose the FAT table on your hard drive and you cant easily find the data). As cells begin to decay so any bonds that existed aka associations are lost, so that even if it could be restarted it would not be able to access the data.

In broad terms a brain is a heuristic learning machine. Meaning it's end product is the sum of its memories/learning. For example if a new born baby's eye were to be covered up for six months, despite removing the cover it still would be unable to see from that eye, because the brain would have used that section for other things.

Answer 4

Depends on your view.

In the wholly physical viewpoint, it goes nowhere. research suggests that we store information (memories) by creating neural pathways in out synapses. Chemical and biological processes aside, this ia very efficient system that eventually breaks down. When we use a pathway less frequently, it eventaully fades, like a nature trail. According to the Physical Law od entropy, all the connections would eventually break down, thus destroying all your information.

A different angle is the fact that if you die, it might be impossible for anyone aside from yourself to even interpret those neural pathways, so even if the connections don't break down, the information is inaccessible, and thus practically lost.

if you follow the Soul as an immortal being that is composed of the self and the experiences we've had veiwpoint, then I guess all your information follows you around. Or else, if you die, leave your body, become a soul and leave your memories behind, then that pretty much means you're no longer you, doesn't it?

Answer 5

I believe it stays with the soul/spirit as Lazarus and Jesus both died and returned with full recognition after death, as witnessed and testified by the writers of the New Testament Bible. Also, Jesus talked with Moses and Abraham at the Transfiguration. Also, the only way we can be held accountable for what we've done in this life is to have conscious remembrance at the judgment day.

Answer 6

Get a brain information donor card and leave it to yahoo.

Answer 7

Our dead brain is like computer with no electricity. The harware remains, to be disposed of, but the software viz the info is lost forever.

Answer 8

It gets put onto floppy disc and saved in the great sky above.

Answer 9

it is important to share as much information, life experiance, thoughts and views with others so it does not all die with us....

Answer 10

well think...how we memorise things, how we visualise anything..or imagine?it is because of e brain cells...when we die, e brain cell dies too...it wont go anywhere...the brain cells die n automatically the info gone too..