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Jeff Davis wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:24 PM, The Avantguardian
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:avantguardian2020@yahoo.com"><avantguardian2020@yahoo.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">.... the corpses of Eva Peron and Lenin, who were so well embalmed that they showed no signs of putrefecation years after they died."
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Hot damn! Daniel. Thank you. I hadn't thought along those lines at
all -- chemical fixation by formaldehyde -- but of course, you're
right.
Chemical fixation and dessication/drying have on occasion be suggested
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If either of those were as or more likely to preserve brain tissue I am
sure they would be used. I would especially doubt that dessication is
good for the brain. <br>
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<pre wrap="">But little
discussion has followed, for whatever reason. I suspect because we
already have a method and an implementing infrastructure. </pre>
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Either of these would probably be cheaper so any pragmatic argument is
rather doubtful. Also that infrastructure was built to support the
best known method and it is quite thin on the ground. It is not like we
are talking a global network using current methods. :)<br>
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<pre wrap="">Buy it
seems eminently reasonable to ask about the comparative pros and cons
of all preservation methods.
But, bottom line is, as you note, if Mr. Richardsons's brain has been
adequately preserved, by whatever means, then he's still in the game.
Hurrah! I really feel a lot better about this now.
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He was thrown into the ground for a year. What part of that leads you
to believe his brain structure would be at all intact?<br>
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<pre wrap="">We would all do well to remember three words: information theoretic death.
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What do you suppose that means in the case of information solely
encoded in the tissue of a living brain? <br>
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<pre wrap="">he would have been better off if some shred of his living tissue had been frozen down for potentially cloning him a new body, etc.
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There would be no "him" for or appreciating this body. Only some new
person with the same DNA. <br>
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<pre wrap="">I think his DNA is still recoverable (If dna can be recovered from
dinosaurs, wooly mammoths, etc...).
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Sure, but so what? <br>
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- samantha<br>
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