X-Message-Number: 13386
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:33:09 -0500
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #13380 - #13384

Hi everyone!

The April 2000 issue of ANALOG hasn't quite gotten to Australia, but
the author of the "suspended animation" article does not look like
anyone associated either with Saul Kent and Bill Faloon's research
efforts or with Paul Wakfer's separate effort. Ergo, provisionally
he's agin it.

Given sufficient biotech, I've often wondered whether or not we may
someday find ourselves sending not whole bodies but only brains, 
and possibly only parts of brains. The body would be recreated when
the person is reanimated; the brain parts would be the only ones 
taken on the flight. And the information so far put out by 
the cryonics groups now researching suspended animation convince
me that a time when we can REVERSIBLY preserve brains just isn't
very far away... 10 years, 15 years, on that order.

Yes, doing so will no doubt awaken lots of opposition. But that
opposition can only exist on the premise that we can actually do it
--- otherwise we are just cranks. I recently sold an article to  
ANALOG myself (no, it did not concern cryonics) and may well find
myself replying to HG Stratmann, too. I still haven't decided, myself,
whether or not such ignorance (presumed, here) is good for us or
bad for us. We may achieve our goal of brain suspension and only
then have opposition suddenly realize just what's happening ---
or perhaps it may come into existence beforehand, and oppose us
busily while we try to do the required research. (As with Greg
Fahy's former boss).

			Best and long long life for all,

				Thomas Donaldson

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