Please elaborate on freezing brain and memory retention after thawing.
Would appreciate source documents on animal experiments. Cryonics
possibilities.
On 21 Feb 1995, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950217144858.608A-100000 at corona> Patrick O'Neil <patrick at corona> writes:
>> >On Fri, 17 Feb 1995, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> >> There can't be any crash since the hardware is very special and has only
> >> a "Virtual Machine"/Soft Circuit layer: no software, it's all
> >> architecture, running a special data structure (me).
>> >No, it would NOT be you. It would be a machine programed to simulate
> >you. You would be dead and a poor "copy" of you would be used to animate
> >a machine.
>> Ah, I see the Neonazi Ecologist (remember that this gentleman has
> proposed the genetic engineering of diseases to kill off most of us on
> the planet) rears his ugly head again. (I bother to mention this
> individuals other opinions because they must never be forgotten -- he
> is the sworn enemy of those who would like to live their lives in
> peace, and he may someday become an actual threat to our very lives.)
>> Well, Mr. O'Nazi, if you were transfered slowly enough -- say each of
> your neurons was replaced with an electronic equivalent one by one --
> the result would be at least as much "you" as your self six weeks from
> now is the same "you" as "you" are today -- after all, braincells
> die with time, constituent materials of the cells are replaced, etc.
>> >You ARE inseperable from your biochemistry and evolution.
>> That is statement made baldly and without evidence.
>> >You are NOT a movable entity or program that only coincidently
> >presently occupies your biological body...you ARE your body.
>> Obviously you are not your body. I can remove large fractions of your
> body without your consciousness noticing a thing. Perhaps, you then
> claim, that you are a brain? But you are obviously not just the brain
> -- were I to take the brain and freeze it, you would no longer be
> conscious. To me, it is fairly obvious that your mind is an emergent
> property of your biological neural substrate -- but that this same
> emergent phenomenon could just as easily operate on another substrate,
> and that, if you care to, you can manage to maintain perfect
> continutity in the transition.
>> --
> Perry Metzger perry at imsi.com> --
> "Just another selfish, me first kind of guy."
>>
