On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 7:41 AM Lawrence Crowell < [email protected]> wrote:
*> In order to really make this work you need Maxwell's demon.* No, to make this work you need Nanotechnology. Maxwell's Demon violates the second law of thermodynamics. Nanotechnology does not. *> for N = 10^10 neural connections there are some N! possible > combinations.* So you're saying wiring up neural connections at random won't work and I certainly agree, if it did work there would be no point in freezing a brain, but we need the information in that brain. Life can access that information so I see no reason in principle why human technology can't access it too even if the brain is frozen, provided of course that chaos isn't introduced in the freezing process and there are reasons to think it isn't. *> It is not impossible in principle, but things like this are not likely > to come very soon.* The thing about a singularity is nobody can say how soon it will happen, even if it doesn't happen for 1000 years 999 years from now it will still look like it's a long way away because more progress will be made in that last year than in the previous 999. So whenever a singularity occurs it will always come as a big surprise to everybody. The good thing about liquid nitrogen is it puts time on your side, subjectively technology will be able to achieve Nanotechnology and superhuman AI instantaneously. And remember current technology only needs to be good enough to freeze things, unfreezing a brain can be left to future scientists to figure out. Am I certain Cryonics will work? Absolutely not. Am I certain it MIGHT work? Yes, I would say the probability of success is greater than zero and less than 100%, but that's about all I can say. John K Clark -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2MOayVs620nO-U%3DufvPj1ng5cDKL-n%2BHa42Ngb249pwA%40mail.gmail.com.
