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From: Gerald Monroe <>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:50:52 -0600
Subject: Re: CryoNet #33340

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Jon - more or less.  Being alive and able to adapt to changes, with cryonics
as a backup, would maximize your chance of survival, I think.  If there were
a way to repair your body from the damage caused by aging, you could go on
living.

The ideal situation is this : you live as long as you can, living as
safely as you can.  Once you die from an accident or develop a disease that
causes neural degradation, you are cryogenically frozen.

Now, if we KNEW beyond doubt that cryonics worked because we had
demonstrated revivals, then going to cryo earlier would be a better idea,
because you are safer inside an armored vault than walking the
street.  Also, once you are rebuilt during revival your memory states could
be backed up and your brain made more resilent to damage than it is
today.  Additional circuitry could be added to your brain to allow for
backups of the data stored within it.  (we can barely imagine such circuitry
today, but if you had control and understanding at the molecular level you
could design and implant complex systems that would not affect the operation
of the brains' biological systems.  For example, the spaces in between the
layers of the brain's myelin sheaths are thought to be fairly inert places.
 Perhaps you could run nano-scale wiring and circuitry there.  You'd also
replace the skull with a matrix of nanoscale circuitry, power sources, and
high strength materials.)

In short, I think that if a person lives past the first big freeze, they
could be immortal so long as they were not deliberately murdered/the
universe didn't run out of fuel/ or something unknowable happened.

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