X-Message-Number: 8043 From: (Mike C.) Subject: Re: CryoNet #8035 - #8041 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:04:46 -0400 >Message #8037 >Date: Thu, 10 Apr 97 12:50:37 >From: Mike Perry <> >Subject: Re: CryoNet #8030 > >>I had not heard it offerred mental alertness, please explain. >> >We in cryonics are looking forward to, not merely reanimation >(assuming the procedure is successful of course) but reanimation >in a state of good health, which certainly includes mental alertness. I was seperating cryonics( stasis) from physical augmentation( reconstruction). I know now you were not. >>>Thus, we are no more >>>aware of the psychic field associated with our own cortex, for >>>example, than we are of the psychic field associated with someone >>>else's cortex." [quoted from *The Hedonistic Neuron* by A. Harry >>>Klopf, p. 53] >> >>What is the range? > >The range of the "psychic field"?--sorry, I don't know. Knowing the range of our senses is important to know what conciousness is. >Both "continuing to process" and remembrance of the past are >essentials of survival >You certainly need to continue to process, i.e. >to continue to be conscious (or to continue to awaken after >each period of unconsciousness). But if you allow arbitrary changes in >your past info (jettisoning it or replacing it with other info) or combining it with new info. > >you could change into another being entirely. I agree. I am conscious of knowing I forget and do change. > >Derek Parfit for example, >in *Reasons and Persons*, invokes a scenario in which he is gradually >changed into a copy of Greta Garbo. Clearly not the same person and >he, Derek Parfit, hasn't survived, even if somehow there was total >continuity of consciousness the whole time. That's my view at any >rate. I agree and also say it does not take such a drastic change to change. Change is change. Time is measured by change. I exist in time. I change. As long as I feel my change I survive those experiences. I live those experiences. I live change. >>I do not care too much if I am still "me"( as I was), > >Basically, you do not care too much about survival as I view it. May be not as you view it, but survival is my purpose in life. > >Are you interested in cryonics? Yes, I post here for a reason. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8043