X-Message-Number: 12917 From: Eugene Leitl <> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:12:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: Brain Death and Technological Change: Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading Interesting resource: http://www.changesurfer.com/Hlth/BD/Brain.html Contents Abstract Introduction Social Death: Operationalizing the Death Concept Technological Change, and Changes in Social Death 1.Diagnostic Advances 2.Neural Tissue Transplants and Chemical Stimulation 3.Neural-Computer Prostheses Cryonics and Nanotechnological Repair and Replacement Material Interests and Death Redefinition Post-Biological Definition of Death: Personhood and Beyond Appendix One: A Quick Review of the Principal Arguments For and Against a Neo-Cortical Standard of Death Appendix Two Bibliography Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12917