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

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