X-Message-Number: 3299
From:   (Anders Sandberg)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: Is revival EVER possible?
Date: 18 Oct 1994 20:06:23 GMT
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Hocus Pocus wrote:
>	Have you ever seen a small bird get shot by a shotgun? You can 
>find the pieces, but no technology can put it back together the way it 
>previously was. 

Ah, the ever-so-popular hamburger problem. Can you resurrect a cow that
has made a hamburger? The difference between a shotgun-killed bird and
a cryonic patient, is that the latter is more preserved. When you shoot
the poor bird, it will scatter over a large area and start to decompose
quite quickly. On the other hand, after the cryonic patient is frozen there
is practically no extra damage, and we have all parts. They are just
damaged. Putting them together is of course non-trivial, but we can take
our time since there are no changes and we have centuries to perfect our
technology. 

I would recomend "Molecular Repair of the Brain" by Ralph C. Merkle
for a detailed discussion of the feasibility of this (the text is at
URL ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/merkle/techFeas.html ). 

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