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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:45:19 +0100
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Subject: Storage of DNA Archive and chemo-fixation of a brain

Where is it supported to evaluate if KrioRus 
http://old.kriorus.ru/english.html can be open for negotiations 
regarding a place for storage of an actually existing DNA Archive at 
room temperature? Well, I know their requirements for storage in a 
dewar, but I want to outline a rather exotic request to store biological 
information above freezing. Actually, KrioRus seems to be alright among 
the currently existing storage providers. But I don't know how to ask 
them about a Russian life insurance for storage of DNA a the later 
funding of chemo-fixation of a brain without freezing.

A new essay below.

Augmentation of Fixation for Machine Transformation

Cryonics supports the storage of valuable information inside human brain 
tissue after death. The life of a human being has more value than the 
activities of a machine. But without recordings of personal information, 
death as a human has less value than the action of electric hardware. 
And irreversible death is what time forces on the majority of human 
individuals. However, even a halfway destroyed brain contains recorded 
information for a machine as a matter of transformation from human brain 
to data base of digital reflections. http://shintoist.com/ cached at 
http://www.webcitation.org/5d0l2JYbd links to some bemes.

Robots are supposed to enable automatized brain surgery for the 
reanimation of neurons after longterm suspension. People who have an 
interest to turn into robots after death should be very well supported 
by organizations for Life Extension. Proposed that machine 
transformation happens, cryonauts who are under surgery for reanimation 
will very much profit from a group of chemonauts who have turned into 
avatars for robots. Only with enough AI and robots, neuro-surgeons will 
re-enact the flow of neurotransmitter molecules in a brain for conscious 
remembrance.

When brains are destroyed, there are still bindings in contracts which 
have been made before death. Contracts can be arranged for the usage of 
personal data in digital components of hardware and software. Brains of 
adults halfway between irreversible destruction may loose parts and 
connections of neurons in which something important like childhood 
memories are stored. Without enough neurons for detailed memorization, 
bioreanimation of patients who want to remember their childhood in 
detail must not be much prioritized. In anatomy, the brain is already a 
machine. Therefore, a contract for chemical fixation requires terms for 
machine transformation from human to robot.

Those who can neither fulfill the financial requirements nor the 
intellectual standards of Cryonics should try to get into a cheap 
contract arrangement for aldehyde fixation of brain tissue even when 
probability analysis render a chance of less than one percent for 
reanimation as a human. If liquid storage is unavailable, plastification 
for the only purpose of machine transformation should be arranged. 
Regarding the actual availability of services, freezing as well as 
vitrification render a much higher chance of bioreanimation. But for 
those of the impoverished who want to continue their projects as a 
robot, chemo-fixation and storage in temperatures above freezing will 
remain an alternative to cryo-suspension.

More at The Cold Filter.

Conditions where a blood washout cannot be established
February 9, 2009, http://www.network54.com/Forum/291677/message/1234184310/

Response to fixation

Very encouraging at 
http://www.network54.com/Forum/291677/message/1233860845/ to mention 
good reasons for chemo fixation.

:quote:
1. Much less technique sensitive.
2. Less time pressure.
3. Less equipment needed in the field.
4. Would equally help accident and stroke victims.
5. Would help in cases where delays happened.
6. Would help in underfunded situations. Gives people time to gather 
funds. Even years.
:quote-end:

There are some more reasons:

7. Suspension in places where strong supervision is needed
8. Exchange of know-how between cryo-providers and chemo-providers

Strong supervision requires authorities to check from time to time if a 
patient's brain is alright under suspension. So they can look inside a 
container where brains are under suspension to check whether the tissue 
has gotten much putrid or not.

Chemo-providers can establish know-how to assess a cryoprotective 
perfusion under urgent conditions where a blood washout cannot be 
established at all. Possible chemo-providers include funeral directors 
who provide embalming. Embalming as usual includes the whole body. This 
must change, so that a trained embalmer preserves the head separately. 
The embalmer should establish ligation of blood vessels in cervical 
areas with a neckband. An electric pump will establish a closed 
circulation inside the skull. Decay of neurons can be tackled by slow 
injection of a universal solution which contains embalming fluid and a 
vasodilator against muscular spasms. If desired, a cryoprotectant can be 
added. Usage of an electric pump keeps the blood in motion.

By the way, I'm still looking for volunteers who can help me to get in 
touch with KrioRus for negotiations regarding the storage of my portable 
DNA Archive which is actually located in Germany. Eventually, there can 
be provisions for a Russian life insurance with low funding under the 
term that it will be for a cheap chemo suspension (if it's becoming 
available). You can contact me by email to robomoon at nexgo dot de with 
subject "kriorus".

Of cause, some parts of neurons are getting destroyed by this approach. 
But there will be remains of dendritic trees, axon terminals, and the 
like, which morphology can be analyzed. Even when reversal of these 
damages for reanimation as a living human cannot be accomplished, I 
still have the intention that special characteristics of my DNA and 
neuronal morphology will be integrated into an autonomous robot. There 
are also digital data (bemes) which will enhance my identity when 
development of AI is progressing.

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