X-Message-Number: 20663 From: Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:58:39 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #20654 - #20661 --part1_1bd.1880635f.2b347c0f_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thomas, from writes: > I've spent years looking into both how brains actually > work and what we might to truly revive them after the destruction > of freezing (as distinct from vitrification). It is true that Do you have any informal opinions about vitrification? > current theories say that our brains work and preserve memories > by the connections between their neurons. There are problems > with this theory, however; one main kind of connection consists > of synapses, and as research has continued synapses don't > all look fixed and stable: at least a subset of them come into > and out of existence and move about, too. What gives you the impression that these transient synapses are responsible for permanent, or fixed, long-term memory? How would this be possible? ______________________________________ ``Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt." --Shakespeare ______________________________________ Jonathan Wellington, FL <A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmdpioneers/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmdpioneers/</A> ______________________________________ --part1_1bd.1880635f.2b347c0f_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20663