As information. If the dead brain could be reanimated, this being the hope of those who place their hope in cryogenics, the sensation, including the last thought before death, is experienced once again. The missing element not being the stored information, but the agency of animation: the electrochemical activity of a live brain.
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''Due to the intrinsic electrical properties and the connectivity of thalamic neurones two groups of corticothalamic loops are generated, which resonate at a frequency of 40 Hz. The specific thalamo-cortical loops give the content of cognition and the no specific loop, the temporal binding required for the unity of the cognitive experience.
Consciousness is then, a product of the resonant thalamo-cortical activity, and the dialogue between the thalamus and cortex, the process that generates subjectivity, the unique experience we all recognized as the existence of the "self".