X-Message-Number: 22765 Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 07:31:35 -0500 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #22758 - #22762 HI everyone! This notice is irrelevant to any of the messages on the current (3 Nov) Cryonet. Recently SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, of all sources, came out with a special issue (September 2003) on neuroscience and its bearing on our improvement. As most cryonicists know, I've been putting out a newsletter, PERIASTRON, which has for several years concentrated on many of the issue this SCI AMERICAN discusses, with particular interest in brain repair and improvement. This issue gives a good summary of what we know now and some ideas about what we have yet to learn (still a lot). For instance, we're now beginning to understand how our different kinds of memories work, but understanding how consciousness works (yes, neuroscientists are working on this) remains in very early stages. Both of these subjects show up in discussions on Cryonet, sometimes by people who've made no effort to learn about what neuroscientists know and think about them, and sometimes by those who have done so. Those who know me know that I've been wary of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN for some time because many of their articles talk down to their readers. This issue seemed to me to be free of that fault, at least in the neuroscience articles. Best wishes and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22765