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Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:22:39 EST
Subject: Investment (CryoNet #30315)

One month ago, Bob Ettinger wrote in message : #30315:


<<David Pizer confirms that he  (sometimes?) has the ear of wealthy people  
interested in cryonics,  presumably mostly Alcor members. He also says that  
attempts to get  them to "invest" in cryonics or to back a new cryonics  
organization  
have not been successful. Let me see if I can offer anything   constructive.

First, if "investing" means for profit, it is difficult to  see how a  
prospect of profit can be made credible, and also difficult  to see why the 
rest  of 
us should be interested.>> 
 
I think it could be interesting to take the "difficult way" and ponder  about 
potential for profit advances. Many messages in the past month are about  
Alcor and its problems, there could be indeed a "political" side with the  

gouvernance, being a CI member, I'll don't give definitive advices about Alcor,

neverthless, may be a part of the more general problem may be that Alcor was the
only organisation with a scientific research program. This made it far more  
serious than CI and attracted people.
 
Then CI made its own researches and kickly took the head (may be that is  not 
real, but it looks as such for an outside observer). So CI credibility got a  
large boost. I think the best advertising is investing in research. Everyone  
understand that cryonics is a gamble on future technology, to look serious it 
 must demonstrate it is progressing towards the objective, even if there are 
many  steps and only the firsts can be done today.
 
Up to now, only better conservation has received any attention, it is  

implicitly assumed that nothing can be done with present day technology to get  
any 
advance in the recovery domain. May be it is difficult to define the exact  

form of the recovery, but some large ideas must be possible, let me give a try
at it:
 
We know that molecular repair will be a necessity, before any such work,  

there must be a planning of the work and this planning implies a molecular  
level 
knowledge of the problem. So, a molecular level scanner is a necessity. It  
could be done in increment steps from MRI used today.
 
Another problem is that ischemic dammage can burst synaptic spines in the  
brain, erasing most of the memory and personnnality. If the scanner find some  
part of neuroreceptors nearby, the whole system could be built back. A  

prerequisite for that would be to know how neuroreceptors are built and what are
their effect.
 
An objective could be a system able to monitor a living neuron of a  given 
kind at the receptor level, so that a link would be done between  elementary 
biochemical components and resulting activity. I think such a device  can be 

built with current electronics technology. It would have many use in  
laboratories 
and can be sold for profit. The market may be near 1000 units at $  50,000 
each, it could be sufficient to launch a start-up with "vulture capital".  The 

only seed money would be a proof of concept device costing may be $ 5,000.  May
be a booklet on such possiblities would be interesting to publish, this  
would be a cheap first step for cryonics groups. It would give a grasp to the  
where to start problem.
 
Yvan Bozzonetti.





   


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