X-Message-Number: 225 From att!CompuServe.COM!76667.3247 Sat Sep 15 02:10:18 1990 Return-Path: <att!CompuServe.COM!76667.3247> Received: from att.UUCP by whscad1.att.uucp (4.1/SMI-3.2) id AA15304; Sat, 15 Sep 90 02:10:17 EDT Received: by att.att.com; Sat Sep 15 01:58:03 1990 Received: by saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu (5.61-kk/5.900912) id AA00552; Sat, 15 Sep 90 01:58:00 -0400 Date: 15 Sep 90 00:15:10 EDT From: Rand Simberg <> To: ">INTERNET:" <> Subject: cryonics #222 - Muscle Memory Message-Id: <"900915041510 76667.3247 EHI23-2"@CompuServe.COM> The case that I like to use which kind of encapsulates the whole argument (so to speak) is of a Vladimir Horowitz or Artur Rubinstein. Is there *no* local processing? As a musician myself, I am pretty well convinced that if my hands had to wait for my brain to tell them what to do, they would not be able to do it quickly enough to play fast passages. I think that there are a number of very basic (and not so basic) motor skills that would be lost and have to be relearned with a neuro-suspension. That might be OK if you want to rationalize that you have plenty of time to relearn that, but it militates against one of the fundamental motivations for suspension in the first place, at least for me. One of the things that most upsets me about death is the waste of all of the time that I have invested in attaining knowledge and acquiring skills. If I throw much of that away anyway, it reduces (though it does not eliminate) my incentive for doing it. Also, the attainment of those musical skills cannot necessarily be replicated exactly. You won't get the same music teacher, or undergo the same experiences that may have ineluctably made you a world-class concert pianist. Rand Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=225