X-Message-Number: 7834
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:42:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Joseph Strout <>
Subject: Re: timescale of cryonics & uploading

[Cross-sent to cryonet and Thomas Donaldson.]

Yesterday was posted a quote from Cryomsg #7645 by Thomas Donaldson:

"As for uploading yourself, I personally doubt that will become possible
until some time after those frozen now have been revived. My understanding
of how brains work, particularly how memory works, have led me to that
conclusion. Naturally I'm happy to explain further (and give scientific
references to the many papers which convinced me of this)."

I missed this the first time around (Feb. 4), but like yesterday's poster,
I would like to hear more.  I find the prospect of repairing the brains
and bodies of those now frozen to be much more daunting than copying their
brains into artificial devices.  Perhaps this is because I am skeptical
about the power of nanotechnology to do everything we can imagine.  But
your opinion is not to be taken lightly!  So if you would kindly provide a
bit more explanation and references, I would be much obliged.

Thank you,
-- Joe

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|    Joseph J. Strout           Department of Neuroscience, UCSD   |
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