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Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 08:46:36 EDT
Subject: Re: CryoNet #19021

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>Message #19021
>From: "Toby Christensen" <>

>This question has been posed to me, and I am wondering as to how to answer 
it:

>Upon death, the brain's electrical activity ceases. All information is lost 
when >brain activity ceases, as the electrons which constitute brain activity 
disperse. >How then, upon revival, is someone with an informationless brain 
to regain the >information they lost upon death in its entirety?

Perhaps Thomas Donaldson will reply, but the short answer is that the 
inquirer's information is wrong. Storage is not dynamic.Humans have been 
revived after flat EEGs, and hamsters with half the water in their brains 
changed to ice have been revived to normal activity.                          
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                   

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
www.cryonics.org


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