X-Message-Number: 10127 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:47:41 +0530 From: Drew Skyfyre <> Subject: if your brain is damaged Hi, >The one case in which we lack the technology to keep you alive would >be that in which somehow, by accident, your brain was destroyed. But >then no amount of technology could help you. You are then DEAD --- even >by the tests of 2500 AD. Or 3000 AD. (yes, some cryonicists want >preservation of whatever remains; others believe that something can be >created from the collective memories of those who knew you. No doubt >both can be done, but I myself have serious problems with whether >this would be at all close enough to you to be you, which is what >you probably want). There is one future possibility : brain to machine transfer. What if we are able to transfer the entire content/"state" of our brains to some artificial medium. We could do requent "back-ups" , so if for some reason your brain should get damaged somehow, there would still be a back-up "copy". It would of course be missing the "data" between the last back-up and the "back-up"'s activation. Regards, Drew "I think the bees *suspect* something -Winnie-the-Pooh Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10127