[ExI] Plastination

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 07:30:17PM -0800, Amara D. Angelica wrote:
> 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.

Arrest causes EEG flatline after 20-30 seconds. People have
been resuscitated from almost an hour of deep hypothermia,
animals after several hours. Devitrified brain slices indicate
near-normal EEG.

> 2. Molecular dynamics cannot be reconstructed from gross structure. 

Any gas box connected to a cold reservoir and frozen and then reconnected
to a hot reservoir will regenerate normal energy distribution. Biological
systems are more complicated, but since they can be restarted from
vitrified stage it empirically falsifies the propositon.

> 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. 

Drinking coffee destroys personal identity.

> 4. Current cryopreservation protocols result in loss of subatomic and
> quantum data.

I'd wish that's all what they'd lose. Current cryopreservation
includes people on (former) water ice for a week. Or worse.

> 5. Cryopreservation inherently destroys subatomic and quantum data.

What is 'subatomic and quantum data'?

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