From: Giu1i0 Pri5c0 (gpmap@runbox.com)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 02:31:47 MDT
You are assuming that what really matters is information, in other words that if we find a way to read/decode the information encoded in a frozen brain, and to encode the same information on a system capable of "running" it, the frozen person can be revived.
I agree with this assumption that to me seems not only reasonable but even self-evident. But others who participated in the recent thread on identity preservation after uploading would not agree, they would say that what is really important is reviving THE SAME organic frozen brain. Here Harvey has a point, we do not know if/when patients preserved with curernt cryonics technology can be restored to biological life.
Maybe the only thing we will be able to do in the future with today's cryonics patients will be copying/uploading the information in their brains. To me it looks good enough.
> One problem I have, though, is that it still looks to me like it would be
> better to just chop off the head and drop it into a bucket of liquid
> nitrogen as fast as possible. *Large*-scale freezing damage is
> irrelevant; you can still connect the dots easily enough. What you want
> to ensure is that the information, the Shannon information, is still
> there
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