[ExI] Plastination

[Amara D. Angelica]

Are there experimental procedures that could potentially falsify these
hypotheses?

1. Brain function and memory require persistence of all (case 2: some)
molecular dynamics of a living brain.
2. Molecular dynamics cannot be reconstructed from gross structure. 
3. Molecular dynamics can be reconstructed but only if the structure is
accurately measured at subatomic or quantum levels prior to death (case 2:
prior to cryopreservation), but the uncertainty principle negates accurate
measurements. 
4. Current cryopreservation protocols result in loss of subatomic and
quantum data.
5. Cryopreservation inherently destroys subatomic and quantum data.


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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Brent Allsop
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Plastination


I'm also very interested in this subject, so thanks, Quoting, for 
bringing it up.  I'd also love to hear from someone like Ken Hayworth.

Wouldn't a physical neural researcher be a good person to ask?  You 
know, the kind of researchers  that work with actual neurons - slicing 
up brains - looking at them at the microscopic and even nano scale 
level, and so on?

I'm completely ignorant on all this, but my completely uninformed gut 
feel is that a sliced up bit of hard frozen brain, even if very much 
fractured, would contain much more preserved information than anything 
plasticized?

Brent Allsop


On 2/1/2011 7:14 PM, natasha at natasha.cc wrote:
> Who knows if this is a truly beneficial way to go, but the person you 
> would want to review his study is Ken Hayworth.  It is his project and 
> his research.
>
> Natasha
>
>
> Quoting Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>:
>
>> Has anyone seriously looked at plastination as a method for preserving
>> brain tissue patterns?
>>
>>
http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/institute_for_plastination/mission_objectives.h
tml 
>>
>>
>> It seems to preserve extremely delicate structures and lasts for
>> 10,000 years without keeping things cold. A technology advanced enough
>> to unfreeze a brain seems like it would be able to work with these
>> things just about as easily...
>>
>> -Kelly
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