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Tortoises; was: Re: cryonics & rationalizatio

gordon e. banks geb at dsl.pitt.edu
Thu May 28 11:39:37 EST 1992


In article <1992May27.222932.18525 at yang.earlham.edu> allens at yang.earlham.edu (Allen Smith) writes:

>> reach 100 without being quite "absent minded".
>>
>        However, are such changes due to brain cell loss, or psychological
>changes? I'd suspect the former.

Cell loss and connection loss.  It is doubtful that "psychology" plays
much of a role at all in this.


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