X-Message-Number: 29923
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:25:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Phil Ossifur <>
Subject: NANOTECH-- failure-- essential features

MPlus disparages Drexler's nanotech treatise
indicating that that was not useful.

 I'm aware that there have been overviews written
about the apparent failure of nanotech to produce
results but I'm not sure what the essential features
of the problem with manufactured replicators and other
nanotech tools are exactly. In my view, everything
Drexler said about tiny molecular machines operating
in the body as being models for what we can design are
still true. Just as birds demonstrate the principle of
flight, nano-sized mechanisms demonstrate the
principles of the immune function and cell repair. 

If MPlus is going to disparage nanotech, he ought to
make an alpha-list on his blog under nanotech and
describe where, exactly, he got off Drexler's bus. For
me, Drexler's vision is simply a matter of time and
further refinement. That vision did not, in my view,
distract us at all from doing the essential work in
cryonics. If there was a failure in the real present
work of cryonics, it had to have been due to other
things-- not Drexler's vision. And you cannot
associate Drexler's vision with the other ideas that
MPlus lumps together. 

See the following for MP's post on this-- buried in a
Cold Filter thread.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/291677/message/1192373686/Reality-basing+cryonics


       


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