Hey guys, this is a solemn decision which John Clark has taken for himself. Please be nice! Samiya
> On 19-Dec-2014, at 9:34 am, "'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russell Standish > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 7:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: I signed up to be cryogenically frozen > >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 02:27:46PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: >> >> Have you considered that if Bruno is right and there's quantum >> immortality then there will a duplicate John K. Clark. >> >> Brent > > More likely, John Clark will wake up having been resucitated from a thawed > brain, rather than some other improbable event, and be $80,000 the lighter > for it. > > Water expands when it freezes; I do not see how the trillions of ruptured > cells (from the micro-shards of ice) constituting the resulting thawed mush > of what once had been a functioning system with trillions of parts can be put > back together. Until a method of preserving the exquisite micro (and possibly > also nano-scale) structures of the brain are developed freezing an organ > destroys it. Certain species can freeze and thaw back out and be fine, but > they have evolved blood containing anti-freeze in it (which is highly toxic > to humans by the way). I am sure DARPA or some such funding agency must be > looking at this for humans. > Cryogenic preservation must begin with figuring out how to bring the > temperature of the preserved tissue down to cryogenic temperatures without so > totally destroying the organ (or entire body) that it becomes a case of > Humpty Dumpty fell off a wall... > In the case of John Clark's brain... he won't care that the information > encoded in his brain has just been destroyed by the process -- he paid 80 > grand for -- meant to preserve it... because he will have died (and won't > miss that 80 grand either I guess) > -Chris > > > In either case, duplicated John Clarks will still be rare... > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret > (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > 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/d/optout. > > -- > 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
