X-Message-Number: 8006 From: (Thomas Donaldson) Subject: re:my.last.message Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 00:45:28 -0800 (PST) Hi again! One other point I forgot to mention. It will sound familiar to those who heard my talk at Alcor this year. If (say) our thalamus does play a big role in our consciousness, and at the same time contains no special information, then we will know that we can revive someone even if their thalamus has somehow been destroyed --- and revive them so that they will be THEMSELVES. That's one real point behind working out just how our brains work: both to find out just what destruction will destroy major information to the degree that we can at best revive someone as a copy (or more happily, what will NOT), and the other point is to understand how to fix it --- necessary whatever technology you use to do the fixing. I really don't want any part of my brain destroyed, and if we all work hard and support the necessary research, at least the lucky ones among us will be suspended without any destruction in their brains at all. But then we know that some of us will not be so lucky --- so to help them (and maybe it will be you, you know) we still want to reach that understanding of how we work. Long long life, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8006