X-Message-Number: 17184
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 16:40:27 -0500
From: david pizer <>
Subject: The world is merely on or off in a sequence.

Robert Ettinger said:

>Third, many think the most important bits of information are encoded in the 
>connections between neurons, which will not necessarily be affected by 
>misfolding of proteins.

Although there are several ways that information may be encoded, and so
Robert's above point may be good news for us, I also think it is better
than that because my understanding of the human mind including: thinking
and perception and memory is that the richness and completeness of our
minds is all created by two signals: on and off.

So the beautiful sunset = on, on, off, off, on, on, off, off, etc .......
A pretty melody = on, off, on, off, on, off, on, etc ..............
The taste of a sour lemon = on, on, on, on, off, off, off, off, etc.....

Every day a human mind is cramed full of exciting experiences, but all they
really are are chemical and electrical impulses of on and off in certain
sequences. There is no world of experiences to recover and put back in
order, just figure out what the sequences are and the mind has been
restored.  Its really that simple :=) 

So even though the brain is complicated (the most complicated thing in the
known universe), what reanimators in the future have to know is the
sequence of excitatory and inhibitory releases in response to stimuli.
Even a brain in ruble, might be able to give clues to future scientists
what that sequence was.


David Pizer

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