Comments on Sentient Developments: The Brain Preservation Foundation: Better preserva...

It seems to me that "unpreserving" things, especia...

2010-06-30T00:49:04.108-04:00

It seems to me that "unpreserving" things, especially living things, would be extremely difficult.

If they're not in some form of stasis, living things are basically electrochemically interacting with itself in various ways at all times. Changing the structure into something inert would shut this off. It seems like to be very effective, you'd somehow need to change it back and then kickstart multiple "channels" of electrochemical interaction in a very short period of time - minutes at best, and possibly even seconds.

It makes sense that he also pursues a Bill of Righ...

2010-06-29T20:01:44.086-04:00

It makes sense that he also pursues a Bill of Rights because I think this approach only works well if there is no delay between pronouncement of legal death and start of procedures. I wrote a bit about this here:
http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/01/28/brain-preservation/

and in an upcoming article for Cryonics (2009-4).

I wished he would not have called it the *Mind Uploading* Bill of Rights because chemopreservation does not necessarily require mind uploading for meaningful resuscitation. Why sell a more controversial package than needed?

Having said this, I greatly support this project because it is another nail in the coffin of the conventional definition of death.

I'm only doing this if it's reversable, the whole ...

2010-06-29T19:20:51.984-04:00

I'm only doing this if it's reversable, the whole "pattern-identity" thing is based on a horrible misinterpretation of biology.