On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 8:51:10 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > 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. >
That was what I then said. However, reconstructing a living organism molecular by molecule is a tough call. I don't know for sure, but I suspect this idea of reviving cryo-bodies may stay in the domain of science fiction. There are as I said a lot of future visions that have not taken shape. We may see more of the same. LC > > *> 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/ed834b9e-e802-4b30-b5d9-8b5293237621n%40googlegroups.com.
