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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18952