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 ,------------------------------------------------------------------. | 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=7834