X-Message-Number: 12265 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: more comments on what's needed for revival Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:22:07 +1000 (EST) To several Cryonet participants: You will have to work out for yourself whether or not successful means to reversibly suspend brains are as close as I am saying. I am not retracting what I said. To George Smith: Besides the above comment, I will point out that I am hardly claiming that something is impossible. I'm suggesting that it can be done much more easily than many think. It seems to me that rather than simply accept a general rule about capitalism and progress, you might wish to study the problem a bit more and see whether or not you still believe it will need any large extension of current technology. There are still problems, too, starting with revival of persons suspended prior to this oncoming technology. That's where all the versions of nanoscience are likely to be needed. And it's also where we'll probably find problems of many different levels of difficulty, each to be solved in its own way. If cryonics becomes popular enough, then we may indeed see lots of research on these problems. But few of us can simply wait: it does make a difference whether or not you must remain suspended for several hundred years or only 50. Depending solely on future progress will ultimately take much longer than doing some relatively simple research on our own. Best and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12265