X-Message-Number: 5318
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 23:50:19 -0500
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <>
Subject: Re: Revival of cryonics patients

In #5308, mike <> writes:
> ... given a particular human mind as a starting point and reasonable
> conditions for advancement, what sort of advanced intelligence would
> develop? One way to answer that question, in the case of a cryonics
> patient, would be simply to revive that patient ...  there might
> be other ways of obtaining an answer without really "running the
> person" ...

No, there is no other way.  For any sufficiently complex system (and
it doesn't take much -- the simple cellular automaton Conway's Life is
sufficient) the only way to find out what will happen is to "run it".
This is good news for cryonicists.
--
Keith Lynch, 
http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/


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