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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: brain vitrification
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:11:46 +0200

On 31 Jul 2005, at 16:02,  wrote:

> Again, Dr. Pichugin's solutions have been tested mainly by the  
> functional
> criterion of the potassium/sodium ratio, a tougher criterion than   
> microscopy.

Maximum information preservation and function restoration are  
different objectives, so their comparison, except in the limit, is  
inappropriate. That is, it might be possible, for example, to fix the  
tissue so that information was perfectly maintained, but was  
functionally irreversible. This would be the ideal for recovery with  
advanced nanotechnology, but a disaster with current revival methods.  
The commercially-oriented tissue preservation work may, therefore,  
not be what yields the best result for cryonic suspension.


dss

David Stodolsky    Skype: davidstodolsky

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