X-Message-Number: 31380 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:45:19 +0100 From: Subject: Storage of DNA Archive and chemo-fixation of a brain Where is it supported to evaluate if KrioRus http://old.kriorus.ru/english.html can be open for negotiations regarding a place for storage of an actually existing DNA Archive at room temperature? Well, I know their requirements for storage in a dewar, but I want to outline a rather exotic request to store biological information above freezing. Actually, KrioRus seems to be alright among the currently existing storage providers. But I don't know how to ask them about a Russian life insurance for storage of DNA a the later funding of chemo-fixation of a brain without freezing. A new essay below. Augmentation of Fixation for Machine Transformation Cryonics supports the storage of valuable information inside human brain tissue after death. The life of a human being has more value than the activities of a machine. But without recordings of personal information, death as a human has less value than the action of electric hardware. And irreversible death is what time forces on the majority of human individuals. However, even a halfway destroyed brain contains recorded information for a machine as a matter of transformation from human brain to data base of digital reflections. http://shintoist.com/ cached at http://www.webcitation.org/5d0l2JYbd links to some bemes. Robots are supposed to enable automatized brain surgery for the reanimation of neurons after longterm suspension. People who have an interest to turn into robots after death should be very well supported by organizations for Life Extension. Proposed that machine transformation happens, cryonauts who are under surgery for reanimation will very much profit from a group of chemonauts who have turned into avatars for robots. Only with enough AI and robots, neuro-surgeons will re-enact the flow of neurotransmitter molecules in a brain for conscious remembrance. When brains are destroyed, there are still bindings in contracts which have been made before death. Contracts can be arranged for the usage of personal data in digital components of hardware and software. Brains of adults halfway between irreversible destruction may loose parts and connections of neurons in which something important like childhood memories are stored. Without enough neurons for detailed memorization, bioreanimation of patients who want to remember their childhood in detail must not be much prioritized. In anatomy, the brain is already a machine. Therefore, a contract for chemical fixation requires terms for machine transformation from human to robot. Those who can neither fulfill the financial requirements nor the intellectual standards of Cryonics should try to get into a cheap contract arrangement for aldehyde fixation of brain tissue even when probability analysis render a chance of less than one percent for reanimation as a human. If liquid storage is unavailable, plastification for the only purpose of machine transformation should be arranged. Regarding the actual availability of services, freezing as well as vitrification render a much higher chance of bioreanimation. But for those of the impoverished who want to continue their projects as a robot, chemo-fixation and storage in temperatures above freezing will remain an alternative to cryo-suspension. More at The Cold Filter. Conditions where a blood washout cannot be established February 9, 2009, http://www.network54.com/Forum/291677/message/1234184310/ Response to fixation Very encouraging at http://www.network54.com/Forum/291677/message/1233860845/ to mention good reasons for chemo fixation. :quote: 1. Much less technique sensitive. 2. Less time pressure. 3. Less equipment needed in the field. 4. Would equally help accident and stroke victims. 5. Would help in cases where delays happened. 6. Would help in underfunded situations. Gives people time to gather funds. Even years. :quote-end: There are some more reasons: 7. Suspension in places where strong supervision is needed 8. Exchange of know-how between cryo-providers and chemo-providers Strong supervision requires authorities to check from time to time if a patient's brain is alright under suspension. So they can look inside a container where brains are under suspension to check whether the tissue has gotten much putrid or not. Chemo-providers can establish know-how to assess a cryoprotective perfusion under urgent conditions where a blood washout cannot be established at all. Possible chemo-providers include funeral directors who provide embalming. Embalming as usual includes the whole body. This must change, so that a trained embalmer preserves the head separately. The embalmer should establish ligation of blood vessels in cervical areas with a neckband. An electric pump will establish a closed circulation inside the skull. Decay of neurons can be tackled by slow injection of a universal solution which contains embalming fluid and a vasodilator against muscular spasms. If desired, a cryoprotectant can be added. Usage of an electric pump keeps the blood in motion. By the way, I'm still looking for volunteers who can help me to get in touch with KrioRus for negotiations regarding the storage of my portable DNA Archive which is actually located in Germany. Eventually, there can be provisions for a Russian life insurance with low funding under the term that it will be for a cheap chemo suspension (if it's becoming available). You can contact me by email to robomoon at nexgo dot de with subject "kriorus". Of cause, some parts of neurons are getting destroyed by this approach. But there will be remains of dendritic trees, axon terminals, and the like, which morphology can be analyzed. Even when reversal of these damages for reanimation as a living human cannot be accomplished, I still have the intention that special characteristics of my DNA and neuronal morphology will be integrated into an autonomous robot. There are also digital data (bemes) which will enhance my identity when development of AI is progressing. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=31380