On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure when electricity was first being understood it was assumed that a > dead body could be revived by electrical stimulation. The reality is that > there are processes which are thermodynamically irreversible. This is why > cryogenics has not been successful yet also. It's not that simple. Living > bodies and cells are more than the sum of their parts, and if you reduce the > wholes to parts, there is no guarantee that if you could force the parts > into a whole again, that it would be the same whole. > > Machines don't die, but living organisms do. Machines are assembled from the > outside, but organisms are born of their own internal nature. The two > approaches could not be more opposite. It's difficult having a discussion with you when you believe something contrary to all biological science for the last two centuries. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
