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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:19:59 EST
Subject: cold effects

RBR wrote in part:
 

>a  brain capable of 
>experiencing qualia prior to perfect vitrification  would be capable 
>of experiencing qualia during perfect vitrification.  In fact, such 
>a brain could validly be regarded as experiencing  qualia, albeit at 
>a rate immeasurably slow.
 
No. Lowering temperature does not merely slow down metabolism. It compels  

qualitative changes as well. The simplest example is that, when liquid water is
no longer available, there is no further activity that requires liquid water. 
 
If qualia consist of modulations of a standing wave in the brain, and if  

such a wave cannot be generated at low temperatures, and if we equate the qualia
with the essence of the person, then there is no person at low temperature.  
However, even in that case it would be very premature to say there is no  
survival, for reasons I won't repeat today.
 
Robert Ettinger





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