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

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