X-Message-Number: 21919 Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 09:59:23 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #21901 - #21913 For Mike Treder: I haven't read the book you criticise, but will make one comment about your criticism. Be careful about what you yourself don't know fully. The white matter in our brains serves as insulation for SOME neural connections, often major ones. Itself it does nothing. And no, I do not believe that nanotechnology will solve all our problems (I'd not claiming you said so) or anything close to that. Before the word existed, people were doing both chemistry and materials science which now falls under that heading --- not to mention biochemistry. And some problems, even the problem of reviving frozen (as distinguished from vitrified) cryonics patients will not be directly solvable by nanotechnology --- the scales of the injuries are too large, particularly for brains. Yes, there are ways it will help, but it will not solve the problem of putting broken brains back together. (At a minimum it will let us build computers capable of working out our FORMER nerve connections --- highly parallel ones, and more capable than the current most powerful IBMs). Best wishes and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21919