X-Message-Number: 18952
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:19:43 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #18945 - #18949

To Iggy:

If we are revived (say) 1000 years from now, that simple fact of revival
suggests that we'll be able to adopt whatever changes to ourselves
that we may want to adapt to the world we find ourselves in. After
all such changes have already started, with proposals to change the
genes of someone already living who may suffer from several genetic
ie inherited diseases. A technology able to revive us from storage
as a head alone should find it simple to exercise any modification
desired.

The changes would probably not be obvious but instead quite deep. I
do not know what human beings will become in 1000 years, though I
am willing to bet that we will have many of the same feelings and
even (most of us) a similar body. I say this because our feelings
and our thinking affect one another strongly in our brain, and
we will not want to give up something about which we feel strongly
or identify with our selves strongly. But that allows quite massive
changes. Where did I say that the materials of which we would be
made would be the same? 

		Best wishes and long long life,

			Thomas Donaldson

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