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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:19:31 EDT
Subject: Re: IS THEIR LIFE AFTER MENTAL DEATH?

You said:
> 
> So, should one preserve a body with a dead mind through cryonics?
> 
> Isn't there a death that is not just physical?  And isn't that death perhaps 
> more total than the cessation of heartbeat and breathing by an "alive" mind?
> 
> Should one save the mere shell of a once vibrant human being?  Who believes 
> that the mind that is no more can truly be restored?
> 
> I personally would not send my Mother to Alcor.  I do not believe she exists 
> anymore in the "real" sense.  
> 
> Cloningly yours,
> For eternal life,
> 
> Randolfe Wicker
> 

I am sorry for you and your mother. On the other hand, I think you are wrong. 
 Don't be able to recall don't imply that memory is destroyed. Some link may 
be broken in the brain, but the recovering technology from frozen state may 
recognise these breaks and repair them.

There may be even more powerful recovering systems that an assumed nanotech 
device. For example a quantum scanner using squeezed states may look in the 
past of a given system and extract the informations to build it back.

Yvan Bozzonetti.



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