X-Message-Number: 7490 Date: 12 Jan 97 23:12:23 EST From: Paul Wakfer <> Subject: Re: #7468 HAL and reality In noting the birthday of HAL 9000's consciousness, Brent Fox wrote: >Some people here on CryoNet might ask what this has to do with cryonics? >Suffice it to say that it is exciting to see developments in AI. I don't >think many here will argue that AI will be necessary for recovery of those >in cryonic suspension. While I agree "that it is exciting to see developments in AI" and have no problem with his posting this information to CryoNet, I do not agree that AI, in the sense of computer hardware/software with conscious, human-like or better powers of induction and deduction, "will be necessary for recovery of those in cryonic suspension". Even full-blown Drexlerian nanotechnology will not require AI, and it may be possible to recover many of those in suspension (to the extent that their minds are recoverable at all -- and that's the biggest unknown), by the use of the extensions and extrapolations of biotechnology which are being discovered and invented daily. -- Paul -- Paul Wakfer email: phone:909-481-9620 pager:800-805-2870 HELP TO ACHIEVE - PERFECTED SUSPENDED ANIMATION WITHIN 20 YEARS! Check out the Prometheus Project web site at URL: http://www.prometheus-project.org/prometheus/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7490