X-Message-Number: 22631
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 08:50:09 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #22626 - #22630

To Basie (whoever you are):

Whatever problems with cryonic suspension which may arise from the
Larry Johnson treason will not be affected at all by the method
used for suspension. Those problems would be legal, not technical,
and for such problems technical issues have very little bearing ---
unfortunately. 

I do think that with some justification we can feel confident that
such problems will be overcome in this case.

To Doug Skrecky:

I'm actually a subscriber to SCIENCE, but the September 26 issue hasn't
yet arrived here in Australia. I will read it with interest when it
arrives. Though brains can be compared to computers, it's not clear
at all they work at all in the same way (Sejnowski may disagree!).
Computers are a nice metaphor for brains, but metaphors don't 
constitute full understanding. (The major problem with identifying
brains with computers comes from our brain's production of new
neurons in at least 2 regions and possibly throughout our cortex. I
haven't noticed computers growing new circuits. A secondary problem
is that all computers so far have been designed as tools for human
beings, for which an independent will and feelings would be an 
impediment ... so they lack large areas of our brains devoted to
just such activities).

As most who read Cryonet already know, I spend lots of time and 
attention on such issues in PERIASTRON.

               Best wishes and long long life for all,

                    Thomas Donaldson

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