X-Message-Number: 18129 From: "Mark Plus" <> Subject: Creative thinking about Supersurvival Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 11:18:24 -0800 Recently I read Scott Witt's book, _How to Be Twice As Smart_. In it he describes a problem-solving technique where you envision the solution to your problem, then work backwards from the conjectural solution towards steps you could take to reach it with given resources. I recall reading about this sort of technique before, I think in Michael Michalko's book _Cracking Creativity_. So, I have a couple of questions to ask members of this list: (1) Human brains obviously don't respond appropriately when you try to cryosuspend them while preserving viability. How would a brain have to behave in order to be easily cryosuspended? And can we work backwards from this model to what we know how to do today? (2) Suppose you imagine a physically possible humanoid body that doesn't age. How would such a body work, and can we imagine the implicit steps necessary to design and build such a body, or even transform a current-model human body, with present or foreseeable knowledge and tools? Sincerely, Mark Plus Stay informed about the battle for Enlightenment-based civilization. Read "The Objective American Daily": http://www.objectiveamerican.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18129