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Dave Sill wrote:
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<pre wrap="">We don't really know that, do we? Properly embalmed and stored in a
sealed casket, it seems *possible* that sufficient structure could
remain. Do you really want Alcor to just assume it's useless mush?
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<pre wrap="">Give me a break. Scientifically we very much do know that.
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I disagree. Do you have any evidence for your claim?
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Open about any medical textbook on the brain and read a bit.<br>
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<pre wrap="">You can't reanimate a person whose brain has already decayed away either.
Precisely my point.
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And my point is that nobody knows if the brain has "decayed away"
until it's exhumed and examined.
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We have scads and scads of experience/knowledge regarding in what
circumstances and how fast brains decay. We don't have to dig up each
instance to know, for any realistic value of the word "know", in that
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<pre wrap="">When it is utterly pointless and only gruesome is left it should.
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You presume it's utterly pointless without actually examining the
brain. You also ignore other possible benefits of this action, such as
discouraging other families from blocking cryopreservation, that make
it less than pointless.
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I don't need to examine yet another specific brain to expect with so
little possibility of error as to be inconsequential that the brain is
a total loss for purposes of reanimation. We most certainly do know
that much conclusively. Those that say we don't have the burden of
presenting evidence that a brain can retain enough of its structure to
preserve all the information necessary for you to be you under such
conditions. Otherwise it is just wishful thinking.<br>
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