X-Message-Number: 13386 Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:33:09 -0500 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #13380 - #13384 Hi everyone! The April 2000 issue of ANALOG hasn't quite gotten to Australia, but the author of the "suspended animation" article does not look like anyone associated either with Saul Kent and Bill Faloon's research efforts or with Paul Wakfer's separate effort. Ergo, provisionally he's agin it. Given sufficient biotech, I've often wondered whether or not we may someday find ourselves sending not whole bodies but only brains, and possibly only parts of brains. The body would be recreated when the person is reanimated; the brain parts would be the only ones taken on the flight. And the information so far put out by the cryonics groups now researching suspended animation convince me that a time when we can REVERSIBLY preserve brains just isn't very far away... 10 years, 15 years, on that order. Yes, doing so will no doubt awaken lots of opposition. But that opposition can only exist on the premise that we can actually do it --- otherwise we are just cranks. I recently sold an article to ANALOG myself (no, it did not concern cryonics) and may well find myself replying to HG Stratmann, too. I still haven't decided, myself, whether or not such ignorance (presumed, here) is good for us or bad for us. We may achieve our goal of brain suspension and only then have opposition suddenly realize just what's happening --- or perhaps it may come into existence beforehand, and oppose us busily while we try to do the required research. (As with Greg Fahy's former boss). Best and long long life for all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13386