X-Message-Number: 23808 From: Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 11:44:34 EDT Subject: re post 23800 Memory occurs in stages. The "flash" memory from a quick glance at anything is rewitten continously and only exists in membrane potentials. Short-term memory is slightly more durable and is the platform that Long-term memories are drawn from. You "defreg" your short term memory with REM sleep and many of your "dreams " are a purging of damaged or unused files (of course integrated with consciousness). Long-term memory is structural, slightly volatile, and cumulative. Frozen planaria maintain pattern recognition once thawed. I'm sure most of our long-term memory will be preserved, as long as damage didn't precede complete cryogenic preservation. My biggest concern is how much damage occurs prior to freezing. We infrequently die suddenly and usually undergo an extensive degenerative process that destroys our organs and poisons brains. Strokes and plaques damage the structure of the brain. It would be good to live where (when) you could initiate the process before the inevitable damage. James R Hughes, MD, PhD Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23808