X-Message-Number: 23954 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:10:03 -0400 From: randolfe wicker <> Subject: Rudi Hoofman and Dr. Crick Content-type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In 23947, Rudi Hoffman proposed attempting to get "free" storage at Alcor for Dr. Crick who discovered the double-helix basis of DNA. I believe it was in the Science Section of the New York Times just this past Tuesday which published an article/interview with Dr. Crick. In that article, Dr. Crick described his belief that we were all composed of nothing more than the network of nerves which ran throughout our body "even down to our intestines". This statement which included our entire neural network as a definition as to what constituted our personality seemed to put Dr. Crick on the "entire body" side of the cryonics debate. I personally sympathize with that concept since I can't imagine being revived without this old familar body of mine, right down to the neural network which reaches into my intestines. Does Alcor generally separate the head from the body like the procedure that caused so much controversy with Ted Williams body? From reading and discussions I gather that the best cryonic treatment requires different treatment of the head but I am not clear on whether this always requires tghe head to be separated from the body. Cloningly yours, For eternal life, Randolfe Wicker Founder, Clone Rights United Front, www.clonerights.com Spokesperson, Reproductive Cloning Network, www.reproductivecloning.net Advisor, The Immortality Institute, www.imminst.org Special Correspondent, www.stemcellsclub.com email: phone: 201-656-3280 Content-type: text/html; charset=Windows-1252 [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23954