X-Message-Number: 20963
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:01:50 -0600
Subject: Re: CryoNet #20917 - #20926
From: Brian A Stewart <>

>If you claim that the computer is made
>up of a combination of all your nanodevices, the same problem
>occurs (our brains are made up of millions of neurons, but
>no one claims that brains are nanodevices). 
 

Hmm.  This would be an separate "nerve system"-- basically a new repair
and immune system.  I rather like the idea, even if it isn't nanotech in
the traditional sense.

Could nanotech devices somehow broadcast their location and what they are
sensing to other nanotech devices?  What methods do cells in the body
use?  (I know that nerve cells do some of this-- broadcasting pain, etc.,
but there must be other methods as well, for the immune system, for
example.  [At any rate, I know that there have been times when I have
been very sick, with my body realizing it while my conscious self just
thought I was a bit tired.])

Just some thoughts spurred by the posts.


Brian

Brian A. Stewart-- Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we
are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but morally treasonable to the American public."
                            - Theodore Roosevelt

________________________________________________________________
Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today
Only $9.95 per month!
Visit www.juno.com

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20963