X-Message-Number: 16726 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:47:02 -0800 From: "Billy H. Seidel" <> Subject: response to Trygve Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:58:12 -0800 >Well, thank you Trygve for your response. > >You present a few situations that could occur. The probabilities of dying >that one could imagine are unlimited and so would my response be to any of >the situations that one could come up with. There are two types of >death. One is physical death in which your body quits working >and current science can't get you working again. I believe this is the >death that we will be reanimated from in the future. The other is >biological death and your atoms are all rearrange for some reason. I do >not believe that any science will be able to reanimate a person from this >form of death. > >For me, I still feel that if my original memories could not be restored >than it would not be me that had been restored. Oh, I know that a cleaver >restoration of implied memories might make a clone believe it was me, but >it would not be me. You mentioned mental content. I am currently keeping >a log book of as much as I can remember about my friends, relations and my >thoughts and feelings, all of which boils down to mental content. But it >will never be enough. Implied mental content is not the same as real >memories. I believe that reanimation will be possible, but to what >percentage will it be me? I'll take almost any percentage. My log book >is to help my restored memories to recall my original memories and not >implied memories. So again, don't dig me up if it can't be me. > >Thanks again Trygve, for your response, and good luck with your projects. > >Billy H. Seidel Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16726