X-Message-Number: 28310
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:05:28 -0600
From: "Anthony ." <>
Subject: Basie's brains

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> Message #28306
> From: "Basie" <>
> Subject: Partial brain transplants
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:54:12 -0400
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> Sometime in the near future partial brain transplants will be done to
> repair
> damaged  brains. Will your brain be save? Or will it be cannibalized to
> repair a more important person's brain.


This is alarmist.

What makes you think that the same tech that can repair the damage to
cryopreserved brains will not be used to repair the damaged brains of the
living?

Cryonicists need not fear "cannibalization" because any tech that can make
use of cryopreserved people will have to reverse the damage from deanimation
and cryopreservation - thus it should be able to reverse similar damage -
minus the cryopreservation damage - in the living.

I think the main thing cryonicists have to fear is never being revived. I
don't think it is likely that dystopian societies will go to the trouble of
reviving cryonicists just to ensalve/exploit/etc. us, especially when there
will be plenty of living people that criminals and despots could more easily
dominate.

Anthony

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