X-Message-Number: 3956 From: (Thomas Donaldson) Subject: Re: CryoNet #3903 - #3907 Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 22:57:52 -0800 (PST) Mr. Clark now tempts me, too. No, I wasn't "finding a reason why nature is a poor designer". I was finding a reason why we are the way we are now. And you admit that it is probably a pretty good reason. To account for why we are put together the way we are now is very much NOT THE SAME as saying that we cannot be improved. An understanding of our present design, of course, will lead to deeper thought about improvements, but that's hardly something to be regretted, rather something to be welcomed. (Assuming that we want to think these things out rather than fling ourselves into the next stylish modification!). After all, cryonicists are immortalists, and that will be a major modification. But without understanding how and why aging happens as it does, our ability to stop or reverse it cannot advance. I would say the same about how our brains work. I wish you every happiness in your future life as a choo-choo train. Long long life, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3956