On 30 January 2014 13:30, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > What's wrong with the way a cadaver functions? >> >> Many changes occur after death, the end result of which is that in a >> cadaver, the parts are in the wrong configuration and therefore don't >> work together as they do in a living person. > > > Wrong for whom? They are in a better configuration for certain microrganisms > to thrive. There's probably more complexity in the computation of a > decomposing body than a healthy one . > >> >> Death is said to occur >> when the changes are irreversible, but people who have themselves >> cryonically preserved hope that future technology will allow what is >> currently thought to be irreversible to become reversible. > > > Had we not already discovered the impossibility of resurrecting a dead > person with raw electricity, would your position offer any insight into why > that strategy would fail 100% of the time? Actually, we can sometimes resurrect a dead person with raw electricity in cases of cardiac arrest, which would previously have been defined as death. It's a case of the definition of death changing with technology. In future, there will probably be patients who would currently considered brain dead who will be able to be revived. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
