X-Message-Number: 7053 From: Joseph Strout <> Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: Re: Freeze tissue young? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:55:11 -0700 Message-ID: <> References: <54f2b8$> On 21 Oct 1996, Michael Vaclav Stembera wrote: > I was wondering if it would make any sence to get samples of > your tissue frozen while you are young if you > plan on getting your whole body frozen after you die. > Presumably you will be old then. This is an interesting suggestion, but I don't think it would help much. To be blunt, old age is the least of your worries after you've been frozen. If the technology is ever developed to revive you, it will almost certainly be able to cure the effects of aging as well. (To look at it the other way: if we don't even come up with a cure for aging, we'll probably never be able to revive you.) There are two main technologies that might lead to reviving cryonics patients. One is full-blown, highly advanced nanotechnology. Some folks think machines will be able to put you back together atom by atom, and while they're at it, put all the atoms where they would be when you were 20. In this case, there will be no need for young tissue samples; the correct arrangement would be obvious from the whole-body data. The other approach is mind uploading, wherein your brain is copied into an artificial body. In this case, there is no need for young tissue samples, as you'll be discarding biological tissue altogether. (For more info, see: http://sunsite.unc.edu/jstrout/uploading/ ) So in either case, there's not too much point in freezing tissue ahead of time. ,------------------------------------------------------------------. | Joseph J. Strout Department of Neuroscience, UCSD | | http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~jstrout/ | `------------------------------------------------------------------' Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7053