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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:58:39 EST
Subject: Re: CryoNet #20654 - #20661

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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?



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