<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anne-Marie Taylor</b> <<a href="mailto:femmechakra@yahoo.ca">femmechakra@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;"><div>So the brain has mind instances (information, remembering feelings, experiences, remembered sensations..... in a moment in space and time...)<br>And the brain is the matter that directs all these mind instances.
</div> <div>Am I understanding this properly?</div></div></blockquote><div><br>We are getting into fine semantic differences, but I would prefer to think of the "brain" as the foundation upon which the minds (houses) are built. (Obviously one can build many different styles of houses on top of the same foundation).
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;"> <div>Cryonic reanimation may occur in the futur by "Waking up the mind" from a frozen state. Does cryonics also consider the posibility of removing the brain matter and transfering to a new body? (Brain transplant).
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Most people of the cryonics persuasion would allow that both possible paths can exist. One evolved largely out of consideration of what biology and perhaps computer technology may be able to accomplish. The other evolved out of determining the impact that microelectronics and computer science may have. Its only been over the last 5-10 years, primarily on this list and perhaps the
sci.cryonics list that an understanding of the probable convergence of the two paths has developed.<br><br>The "brain transplant" approach largely developed out of the realization that one could produce a body "clone" and transplant the brain (mind). Alternatively one could transplant the brain into a completely different body). The only significant barrier to performing brain transplants *today* from say an 80 year old body into a 20 year old body is the current inability to reconnecting neurons from the lower brain to the spinal cord. The recognition that brain transplants into younger or cloned bodies is or will be feasible is a key reason why there has been some shift from freezing entire bodies to freezing only heads when suspending an individual. [This is because the cost of suspending and maintaining a head is ~25% of the whole body cost.]
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;"> <div>Uploading is taking mind instances and transfering them to a computer.
<br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><div>I'm assuming this is what i'm doing right now. Typing and transfering into a computer. I would assume, in the futur, this
would be done very differently. What is the general opinion on how this process will occur?</div></div></blockquote><div><br>As it is little discussed there are only a few suggested approaches. One involves micro-scanning of your brain using NMR or similar technology. Another involves disassembling and reading out the information content of the brain using methods similar to those found in electron microscopy or atomic force microscopy. A third involves using nanorobots to map the complete structure of the brain and provide information taps or complete information status. There are at least 3 general paths, and perhaps more, which would satisfy the information readout for most people.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><div>Won't this only just create a super-computer?
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Your brain is *already* a supercomputer. It is roughly the equivalent of perhaps a few thousand Playstation 3s (which havent even been produced in large numbers yet).<br></div><br>Robert
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