[ExI] Help with freezing phenomenon

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Fri Jan 28 10:56:02 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:03:33PM -0500, Mike Dougherty wrote:

> I'm fine with the concept of frozen heads in a tank.  It was the

The proper term is patients. Neuropatients, specifically. There
are very good reasons to avoid using other terms. Also, you would
want to vitrify (which is not trivial, by the way, and beware
of people who claim they do vitrification without proof).

> mental flip-flop (pun intended) from brains to fish and back.  From
> the verbification of sushi to sushiable we're likely to get to
> sashimiable and though that might be ideal for scanning in a later
> analog-to-digital conversion, I keep imagining the plates getting
> confused between customers.  I might wake up with the only memory of
> elementary school being a lot of swimming around and avoiding orcas
> ...and where my recollection of learning to ride a bicycle end up is
> too ghastly to consider. :)

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