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)

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> 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


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