X-Message-Number: 207 From att!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!hkhenson Wed Aug 1 12:02:59 1990 Return-Path: <att!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!hkhenson> Received: from att.UUCP by whscad1.att.uucp (4.1/SMI-3.2) id AA15612; Wed, 1 Aug 90 12:02:58 EDT Received: from portal.UUCP by sun.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13675; Wed, 1 Aug 90 08:22:11 PDT From: sun!portal!cup.portal.com!hkhenson Received: by portal.portal.com (%I%) id AA22555; Wed, 1 Aug 90 07:56:44 PDT Received: by hobo.portal.com (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA28539; Wed, 1 Aug 90 07:56:42 PDT To: Subject: Re: cryonics #206 - Neuro Option Information Wanted Date: Wed, 1 Aug 90 07:56:41 PDT Message-Id: <> X-Origin: The Portal System (TM) X-Possible-Reply-Path: X-Possible-Reply-Path: sun!portal!cup.portal.com!hkhenson Rather than argue that cloning a new bod for your neuropreserved head is easy (Which I can't) I would argue that it is *easier* than fixing damage done to your head and brain by current cryonic techniques. While we don't think the information loss is unrecoverable, the damage is wide spread, and on a number of scales. At the grossest level, we have cracking. This results in little information loss, but will require nerve splicing or the equal to fix. At much finer (cell level) we have displacement by ice crystal formation of many structures known to be important. All have to be put back where they were, not to mention reversing the damage done by aging and whatever killed you in the first place. By comparison, it is my judgement that knitting a new body off the stump of the neck is certainly a lesser task. If you have doubts, and many do, go whole body. The cost is not all that much more. Keith Henson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=207