Survey results on the structural basis of memory

[AndyMcKenzie]

Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, Emil Kendziorra, and I recently ran a survey of neuroscientists, asking them what they thought of the structural basis of memory, and how that extended to the possibility of brain preservation. I thought readers of this forum might be interested.

Here is the preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/keq7w

Here is coverage on it by The Times: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/art ... -2tlr6sd7r

I also wrote up some personal thoughts on the survey results here: https://neurobiology.substack.com/p/how ... eservation

[jordansparks]

The scientists' responses have some obvious internal contradictions. The big one is how they treat C. elegans and humans differently. In the estimate of C. elegans emulation probability, there are very few "never" responses. But for humans, there are many "never" responses. This is clearly an irrational contradiction because there is no fundamental physical difference between the brain of C. elegans vs. human. It's simply a matter of scale.