X-Message-Number: 20282 From: Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:07:53 EDT Subject: Re: #20281 --part1_33.2e761fa2.2ad82729_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In: > Message #20279 > "Basie" <> said: > > Many people assume the aging problem will be solved before cryonics > revival. What if they are wrong and cryonics revival is done first. How do > you store a billion old people. And who will pay for it. In thinking, everything is put on the same level: it is no more hard to speak about a 10 GHz computer than about interstellar travel. In practice there is a difference: the computer may be on the market 5 years from now and we would be lucky if interstellar travel is done in the comming 5 centuries. Aging has always been with us and so seems an impossible sumit to conquest. In fact, the problem may be "rather simple" and biology, using stems cells, free radical scavengers, and some similar biochemical technologies may solve the problem. Getting out of cryonics state, at least current cryonics, would be far more difficult. In fact, if you don't have a blind faith in nanotechnology power, there may be no direct solution. That is why I think the only hope is about uploading. Brain would be scanned at molecular level and a "picture deconvolution software" on a big computer would unscramble the brain structure. The "cleanned" picture would then be run on a computer, using a latice space similar to the ones used in quantum physics for particle interaction simulation. That brain-on-a-computer would then be linked to a new biological brain in a new body, may be a clone of the original patient, may be something else, for example an animal if that solution implies less legal problems. All of that is very big technology, well beyond the simple aging problem. It would take extraordinary historical distortion to reverse that order and solve cryonics recovery before aging. The only way to get that case would be a strong law set forbiding life extension on religious grounds. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_33.2e761fa2.2ad82729_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20282