X-Message-Number: 9894
Date:  Fri, 12 Jun 98 17:25:11 
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Re: #9888

Saul Kent wrote,

>        If I am successful in these efforts, than *I* will be 
> around in the future to do everything I can to push forward 
> the research needed to attempt to reanimate my mother 
> and friends (and others) who were cryopreserved with 
> more primitive methods. In my opinion, the best chance 
> for patients frozen poorly, who may require a century or 
> two to be revived, will come from the efforts of survivors 
> from the era in which they were frozen, rather than the 
> efforts of members of unborn future generations.

While I'd like to think that at least *some* who are yet unborn will 
also have a strong interest in reviving those who are frozen already, 
people that they never knew, there is,
as usual, no guarantee. So this is 
one more reason *we* should optimize our own chances, i.e. to serve 
(Fedorov-style) as the resurrectors of our own ancestors as far as 
possible, and others frozen from our
own era. But there is another reason 
still for ourselves to survive as well as possible,
connected with the revival of those 
we remember, which is that our own memories contain information about 
those very persons. If the persons themselves were poorly preserved,
our memories could supply additional personality information that 
would not otherwise survive, which could be reimplanted in their 
reconstructed brains. Something along these lines is done in *The 
First Immortal* near the end.

Mike Perry 

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