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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Brennen" data-source="post: 3126449" data-attributes="member: 553">Aaannd... you know this because you've talked to how many dead people who've regenerated  back to life? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Seriously, we currently know so little about how memory works in the brain, I'm not sure you really say how much is lost physiologically afterdead. The fact that nervous tissue doesn't regenerate like other tissue presents a problem in the first place. But if you accept the premise that Claire's CNS does, and if information is stored "holographically" in the brain as some theories suggest, the remaining part of her brain might contain the information to allow the synapses in the damaged part regrow with their developed (as opposed to base genetic) configuration intact.However, I think she'd been dead so long that nothing should have been able to regenerate. If you think too hard about it, coming back from the dead at all after several hours doesn't really make sense, even with a super regeneration power, as all tissue starts breaking down, not just the brain cells. The regeneration should prevent you from being dead in the first place.And if there was still a cluster of living cells around that imbedded stick futilely trying to close the wound, you have to wonder, how little tissue could she regenerate from? If you cut off her hand, could the hand grow a new body? Could she regenerate from decapitation? The show, while highly entertaining, is definitely more entrenched in comic-book science than "hard" sci-fi.</blockquote>

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