X-Message-Number: 12549 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 08:59:35 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Re: hamburger/cow John de Rivaz, #12343, writes, re the idea of getting a cow back from hamburger (by cloning): > >This could be dangerous, as although you could get *a* cow back, you could >not get the same cow back with all its memories etc. > >Just as most people have a lot of misconceptions about cryonics, so do they >about cloning - many people think having yourself cloned would be comparable >to extended life after the original perished. Utter rubbish I know, but it >is what people think, even otherwise articulate and intelligent people. > Okay, you have to take this into account, and not project the idea that the old memories would also magically reappear. How many memories has a cow anyway? If you did some simple training/conditioning, the new Bossy could be made to approximate the old pretty well, I'd think. Also, I think it would be useful to get a mainstream cryobiologist to so much as focus on why it's important to have the brain's information in a proposed (human) reanimation. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12549