X-Message-Number: 2916
Date: 18 Jul 94 22:08:26 EDT
From: Michael Riskin <>
Subject: CRYONICS "Thinking"

   One portion of a mental status examination is concerned with the
patients thinking. Thinking is further broken down into the following
categories and sub-categories:
THINKING
 Intellectual Functioning
   Consciousness
   Attention span
   Abstract thinking
   Calculation ability
   Intelligence
 Orientation
   Person
   Place 
   Time
 Insight
   Accepts responsibility
   Blames others
  Judgment
   Management of daily activities
   Making reasonable life decisions
  Memory
   Immediate recall
   Recent
   Remote
  Thought content
   (This is a long list of such items as obsessions, compulsions, phobias,
    and delusions, as compared to "rational" thought content and process.

Much has been written by cryonicists concerning the preservation of one's
identity. Besides the retention of the subjective sense of self, I hope to
reanimate with my thinking reasonably intact. 

Michael Riskin

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