X-Message-Number: 4914
From:  (Brian Wowk)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: To our beloved Pharaoh ...
Date: 22 Sep 95 00:54:55 GMT
Message-ID: <>
References: <43ao9h$> <43n6u1$>

In <43n6u1$>  (Jurre) writes:

>...how do you *know* that you're actually preserving this person, as
>opposed to their "shell?"  ::shrug::  Just a question that I think is
>being overlooked by everyone caught up in cryonics.

	How do you *know* that patients who wake after an hour of
hypothermic circulatory arrest (flatlined with ZERO brain function)
are still the original people, as opposed to their "shell?"  Just a
question that I think is being overlooked by everyone caught up in
vascular neurosurgery.

---Brian Wowk 


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