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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9894