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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4914