X-Message-Number: 5632
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
From:  (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Don't talk about neurosuspension
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:35:41 GMT
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You're seriously saying that if you had 15 billion dollars to spend, you
would still do neurosuspension for $50K and spend the other
$14,999,950 on gathering information to help your neurosuspension and
research, rather than spend $130K on full body and spending the
remaining $14,999,870 on research and info gathering?


Then you're missing something in my book.  We have good guesses about
how it all works, but we don't know.

Actually, as reported to me, one thing we know is that some learned
motor skills are in the body.  For example, even riding a bicycle apparently
requires response times shorter than the nervous system transmit time from
your limbs to your brain.  Global control is in the brain but the other
parts of your nervous system learn something.

Now of course, one might argue that you would rather wake up with Nureyev's
motor skills than your old ones anyway, and that might be true, but this
is just one example.  We don't really know if something else might be
there.  So if money were no object, you would preserve the body, just on
the off chance.  I would.
-- 
Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp.	 
The net's #1 E-Newspaper (1,160,000 paid sbscrbrs.)  http://www.clari.net/brad/


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