Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: KPURCELL@liverpool.ac.uk (Kevin 'fractal' Purcell) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Drexler on immortality, source of nano books. Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 90 01:54:08 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 32 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu On Tue, 20 Mar 90 22:45:00 EST Paul Baclaski (peb@com.sun.eng.tma1) said: >I figure that an intricate "rejuvenation" (Fountain of Youth (TM)) >will be a big market. The idea is that the newness, naivete, and >energy of Youth is instilled into your jaded, filled memory/brain. >The best approaches will cause selective memory loss--keeping the >good memories, erasing the bad ones. There would, of course, be a problem with this -- as most wisdom that we obtain comes from the bad experiences we have (remember the first time you fell in love -- now you wouldn't want to do that again? Or rather you probably would, but avoiding all the bad bits) we stand to lose a lot of our wisdom. Perhaps the best way would be to seperate the wisdom from the bad experiences but I'm not sure this is possible -- a little like the difference between knowing that you shouldn't do something because you've been told not to do it and knowing not to do it because you've done it before and the outcome wasn't much fun. He who never makes a mistake never learns anything. > >Paul E. Baclaski >Sun Microsystems >peb@sun.com _________________________________________________________________________ Kevin 'fractal' Purcell ...................... kpurcell @ liverpool.ac.uk Surface Science Centre, Liverpool University, Liverpool L69 3BX "My karma just reversed over your dogma"