X-Message-Number: 19317 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:57:45 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #19310 - #19315 To Toby Christensen: I'm hardly Bob Ettinger, but I believe the answer is simple --- if seen in one way. The really hard part may be to bring the individual cells in a patient's brain (and body) back to full life. Once they become active, they'll make whatever electrical currents are required on their own. Getting them to that point is the hard part. Starting the repaired patient's heart, again, may well be done with electrical impulses. Once his/her brain cells start to get oxygen and nutrients then they will begin, once more, by themselves. You may want to refer to many experiments done by cryonicists and NONcryonicists in which a dog's heart is stopped at low enough temperature that the dog looks "dead". (Hmmm!) Raising their temperature and starting their heart brings them back again, with no special electrical work on their brains. As I said, the really hard part isn't getting repaired people to start again. The hard part is repairing them in the first place. Best wishes and long long life for all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19317