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Re: Honest Questions For An Honest Cryonicist

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From: Henry J. Cobb
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 22:43
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	If you are a infinitely fined grained chaotic dynamic structure, then
freezing you isn't going to do much good.

	Otherwise you're a Turing machine, and might as well wake up in 
hardware.

	BTW: anybody remember which issue of Sci. Am. had the cold quantum
chemistry article?  Or as I like to call it "frozen rot".  Turns out that
there is a minimum rate for every chemical reaction, regardless of how cold
it gets.

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu

[If you are a infinitely fine-grained chaotic dynamic structure, then
 a butterfly in Peking can change your whole life.  There is good evidence
 that our brains are chaotic (e.g. Paul Rapp's work) but if so, our
 concept of personal identity must necessarily correspond to the attractor
 and not to an individual microstate.
 --JoSH]
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Subject: Re: Honest Questions For An Honest Cryonicist
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