X-Message-Number: 5393
From:  (George Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Radiation preservation
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 12:33:35 GMT
Message-ID: <4ae9il$>

I am curious about what aspects of radiation preservation could be
used to store a body or a head (brain ) for reanimation.

Could you seal someone in say a block of plexiglass and then irradiate
them to prevent parasitic decay? Obviously you would not stop chemical
decomposition but perhaps the lack of parasitic structural decay would
be enough to retain the physical structure of the brain and THAT would
be enough to match the neuron circuits and allow reconstruction.

Is enough of the personality stored in the physical structure of
nueron circuits such that preservation of electrical and chemical
potentials is not needed for reconstruction?

Obviously DNA damage would be too much to allow anything other than
using the body as a physical model from which to form another. No
reanimation of the irradiated body would be directly possible without
huge advances in DNA repair.

Any thoughts welcome.

--
George Watson

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