X-Message-Number: 14273 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 06:57:43 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: awareness and memories Hi everyone! For Dave Pizer: we need both awareness and memories. The difference is that recreating awareness may be simple, while (at least now) recovering memories does not look simple at all. Remember that I suggested that in our lower brain there may be a center which handles the lower-order part of awareness; but in doing so it still needs the cerebrum to work on... and that's where the memories are. Memories without awareness, in short, may be easy to fix by providing the brain areas involved with awareness, while awareness without memory goes nowhere. For that matter, we'll need a body, too, but no one would claim that if we survive (unconscious) as a head alone that providing the body will prove harder than making the brain survive. Best and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14273