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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:07:53 EDT
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> Message #20279
> "Basie" <> said:
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> Many people assume the aging problem will be solved before cryonics 
> revival. What if they are wrong and cryonics revival is done first. How do 
> you store a billion old people. And who will pay for it.

In thinking, everything is put on the same level: it is no more hard to speak 
about a 10 GHz computer than about interstellar travel. In practice there is 
a difference: the computer may be on the market 5 years from now and we would 
be lucky if interstellar travel is done in the comming 5 centuries. Aging has 
always been with us and so seems an impossible sumit to conquest. In fact, 
the problem may be "rather simple" and biology, using stems cells, free 
radical scavengers, and some similar biochemical technologies may solve the 
problem. Getting out of cryonics state, at least current cryonics, would be 
far more difficult. In fact, if you don't have a blind faith in 
nanotechnology power, there may be no direct solution. That is why I think 
the only hope is about uploading.

Brain would be scanned at molecular level and a "picture deconvolution 
software" on a big computer would unscramble the brain structure. The 
"cleanned" picture would then be run on a computer, using a latice space 
similar to the ones used in quantum physics for particle interaction 
simulation. That brain-on-a-computer would then be linked to a new biological 
brain in a new body, may be a clone of the original patient, may be something 
else, for example an animal if that solution implies less legal problems.

All of that is very big technology, well beyond the simple aging problem. It 
would take extraordinary historical distortion to reverse that order and 
solve cryonics recovery before aging. The only way to get that case would be 
a strong law set forbiding life extension on religious grounds.

Yvan Bozzonetti.

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