From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sun Dec 17 2000 - 17:02:53 MST
From: Ken Meyering
>ArtWORK and resume are at the following URL: http://define.com/ken
http://define.com/ken/she-likes-it/1.txt
For an interesting read, see http://www.merkle.com/cryo/techFeas.html
I read this paper from beginning to end in one sitting, though I don't
pretend
to understand it. I got the gist of it though, and figure somewhere in my
subconscious mind there are little neural networks making sense of the bits
and
pieces that were incomprehensible. If you read it, do yourself a favor,
read
every word, comma, and period, in order, from beginning to end, whether it
makes
sense or not. Ultimately, the pieces will fall together.
The Molecular Repair of the Brain
http://www.merkle.com/cryo/techFeas.html
This paper considers the limits of what medical technology should eventually
be able to achieve (based on the currently understood laws of chemistry and
physics) and the kinds of damage caused by current methods of freezing. It
then considers whether methods of repairing the kinds of damage caused by
current suspension techniques are likely to be achieved in the future.
Hi Ken,
Nice art, and lots of it, thanks.
I read enough of Merkle's paper to persuade me that there are some people
determined to extend human life via cryogenic technology. I think they'll
succeed. To the extent that they fail, they will be motivated to greater
effort; and to the extent that they succeed, they will have more time to
work on it. People, especially elite people, will need to consider which
path leads to the longest life: cyborganization, cryogenics, digital
copying, cloning, gene mutation, bionics, symbiotics, and so on. Synthetic
sentience (potentially immortal and presently evolvable) may make molecular
brain repair obsolete and irrelevant by making us all into droids involved
in the puppet show. They give good herd.
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
3M TA3
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I think I'd add "free will" to the list of "consciousness" "phlogiston"
"vitalism" and "mind" as examples of useless hypotheses.
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