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/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5318