[extropy-chat] Cryonics and uploading

[Michael Lawrence]

> Eric Messick

> >The only logically consistent conclusion is that life 
> (mind-producing 
> >*activity* of matter in space-time) exists only for a time 
> period between 
> >the start of the mind process and it's end. In other words, 
> original life 
> >can only exist for a single session which means that as soon 
> as you die, you 
> >stay dead forever.
> >
> >This is quite an orthodox view, and I don't like it, but I'm 
> afraid it is 
> >true.
> >
> >Slawomir
> 
> Ok, so what about children who have been revived after hours of being
> submerged in near freezing water?  They have no circulation and no
> brain activity when they are pulled from the water.  They experienced
> death, but then are revived, apparently undamaged.

My understanding is that 'brain death' is irreversable, and so there would have still been "brain activity" on some level.

Michael.