X-Message-Number: 10156 Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 11:40:14 +0530 From: Drew Skyfyre <> Subject: Re : Brain Damage >From: Thomas Donaldson <> >Subject: CryoNet #10125 - #10132 > >To Dre Skyfyre: >If your brain is destroyed before it is read into a different form >("machine" --- what is a machine --- or whatever) then it cannot be >read into a different form. It no longer exists. That is the problem >with brain destruction. > Hi Thomas, here's how I see it : We are our brain. Our brain operates using electrical signals, so it follows that it may be possible someday to make a clone of it's "state" at a given point in time, complete with memories, etc. This no doubt would stretch into the terabyte range, and would be stored in some very high capacity, off-line removable storage device, using whatever new technology. Some of this takes a bit of imagination stretching, since any or all of any copies could be activated in some sort of "body", flesh and blood clone of your very own, minus the brain, cyborg, android, whatever. In effect there would be as many of you around as there are copies active. These are just a layperson's thoughts, the actual matter brings up many problems, such as security, would any glitches occur within the stored copy, etc. So, activating a copy, would activate another you. And, yeah, I do read a fair bit of Sci-fi ;-) Also, this prospect does wind up as an alternative to cryonics. But then all we want is to live forever right ? Anyway, I do. See you later, eh ? Regards, -Drew Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10156