X-Message-Number: 15755 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 06:41:06 -0500 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: recent cryonets Hi everyone again! Some comments re the Cryonet which begins with Msg #15747. Unfortunately, the arguments over whose method is best continue. Cryobiology has lots of byways to get to the same place; I would not be surprized if in the end each society works out a method which works. Some may take longer than others, but that's not the point. The piece by Mark Plus turns out to be disappointing, at least to me. First, it's very unlikely that our hippocampus stores all our memories permanently, while the work seems to look only at the hippocampus. Not only that, but even the hippocampus does not play a role in the storage of all kinds of memory. I am not claiming that the work of these scientists is useless, at all. It may help in special conditions. However the major concern of cryonics is the recovery of memory from suspension patients, and this work has at best rather distant relationship to that problem. Why Mark Plus doesn't look at other sources I do not know... and I am not referring here to PERIASTRON (which is after all just my choice of which developments are worth writing about for one issue) but to all the many journals on how our brain works, at all the different levels. Sure, I'd be glad if he were a subscriber, but that's not the problem I am raising here. Best wishes and long long life for all, Thomas Donaldson PS: If you wish I will send you my sources for the statements I make here... the scientific statements, about how our brain works. Or doesn't. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15755