X-Message-Number: 6344 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 96 10:22:10 From: Dave Pizer <> Subject: Reply to Thomas > Reply to part of Message #6343 From: (Thomas Donaldson) snip > I will add that there is another approach, also long term: to find out how > to assist our brains' already existing abilities at self-repair so that > they can repair themselves with assistance from drugs, viruses, etc. Even > 20 years ago, some cryobiologists working on kidney preservation were > suggesting that the problem may turn into one of not just minimizing the > the damage on freezing but finding out how to make the brain repair itself > after thawing. RIGHT NOW WE (HUMAN BEINGS COLLECTIVELY, NOT CRYONICISTS) > STILL UNDERSTAND VERY LITTLE OF THE PROCESSES BY WHICHANY TISSUE > REPAIRS ITSELF. This is very exciting. And, this is the approach I envision for my own personal revival. I would much prefer for future doctors to cause self-repair of my original thawed brain than to take it apart, make measurements, and build a new one, (if that is even possible). Dave Pizer Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6344