X-Message-Number: 27300 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:40:36 -0400 From: Francois <> Subject: Reanimation experiments Many potential cryonauts here have stated that they would like to be revived only after reanimation techniques have been demonstrated safe and effective. That makes sense. It would indeed be dumb to go through the trouble of getting cryonically suspended only to have the reanimation fail through some technical snaffu or badly done research. Yet, how exactly are the needed experiments to be done? We can't experiment on animals, because they don't have the level of sentience we would need to preserve and restore. A reanimation procedure could work fully on a dog's or even a chimpanzee's brain and still fail on the more complex human brain. We can't experiment on humans unless they volunteer, and even then it would not be ethical to risk inflicting massive brain damage on them for the sake of scientific research. So what sort of protocol could be used in this instance? How could we gain enough knowledge to successfully reanimate human brains if we can't experiment directly on them? And how would we measure success on something as subjective as self awareness? Francois The Devil fears those who learn more than those who pray Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=27300